[xela79]

> Let's work 90 hours a week and retire at 80, imagine the growth, big numbers get bigger makes bald monkey happy

that is all you heard in the 80-90s, people over the pond showing off how many hours per week they worked. like... how is that something to be proud of? So wauw, you spend 12hrs+ per day working , had no free evenings, zero paid holidays. And that is supposed to impress who?

please.

[lm28469]

What happened in the 80s too is that politics told us automation would bring a 3 days work week, which never materialized. But now we have to trust the same people, moved by the same greed, that this time it'll be different

[jstanley]

40 years on, how many of them truly are the same people?

[piva00]

It's the same breed of people, bred from the same system, not literally the same people but the people following on the footsteps. Greed is the constant.

Hell, it has been going much longer than only 40 years ago, on "In Praise of Idleness" Bertrand Russell talked about how industrialisation with its automation should be helping workers to work less 90 years ago.

[lm28469]

They're cloning them in the same schools, that's why we have 30 years old full blown boomers