I hope we do. I started working for myself and I've only got my tools on maybe 30hrs a week now, it's pretty great. Most days I can put in a solid 5 or 6 hours and be good. I want that for everyone.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We went relatively quickly from 12h day to 10h and then 8h. And we stopped there for no reason.

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Worse, they normalised 2 adults per household working 8 hours per day.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I believe you mean 2 adults, working 8 hours with an unpaid lunch meaning 9 hours out plus commute.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is pretty sad that we haven't had any progress in 100 years despite all the technological marvels.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 days ago

Maybe we had some progress but a class that is not the working class keeps all the money?
We will never know.

[–] Mora@pawb.social 17 points 6 days ago

Likely only compared to the industrialisation era:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html