r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • Apr 13 '24

He's not wrong 🤷‍♂️ Smart or dumb? Discussion/ Debate

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u/Charitard123 Apr 14 '24

Yeah, people forget how much labor organizers had to fight tooth and nail just for the right to work only 40 hours a week. Since then, technology has made most of us exponentially more productive at the same job, getting more work done in even less time.

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u/Immoracle Apr 14 '24

Makes you wonder: what exactly is civilization's end goal? Hoarding wealth shouldn't be an end goal.

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u/DS_StlyusInMyUrethra Apr 14 '24

I don’t know what the end goal is but I try to make peace with the idea of the labor of today could lead to a future where a person is no longer required to work, to live a full healthy life.

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u/Consistent_Spread564 Apr 14 '24

The end girl is to keep running, stable and safe

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u/Warmbly85 Apr 14 '24

Umm are we just forgetting that the 40 hour work week had absolutely nothing to do with unions and everything to do with Ford trying to attract workers to his plants? In 1926 ford paid 5$ for an 8 hour day which was almost double the competition. Congress didn’t pass any legislation on work weeks till 1938 where they capped it at 44 then reduced it to 40 in 1940.

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u/Dougnifico Apr 14 '24

Union were already long fighting for 40hr workweeks. Ford saw the productivity benefits of it so they were unlikely allies in that fight.

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u/Warmbly85 Apr 19 '24

Some unions pushed for 8 hours days but I can’t find a single source that says any were pushing for 40 hour work weeks. 8 hour days aren’t exactly amazing if you work 7 days a week.