• 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Because the rich can’t stand it if their wealth doesn’t grow. Their piece of the pie can grow because the entire pie is growing or by taking a bigger piece. These days the pie doesn’t grow like they want so they’re taking more of everybody else. That means you have to work more for less.

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      4 days ago

      The pie grows when you’re more productive. Are you more productive when you work 60 hours per week, as opposed to say 35 hours per week? I highly doubt it, at least on average across industries.

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          3 days ago

          It doesn’t mean anything to be more or less productive doing more or less hours.

          They see it this way: if you are 100% effective for 30 hours and then 20% effective for the other 10 hours, that’s still overall more than if you would just do the 30 hours.

          There was a joke post (I hope) about some CEO giving people a 4 day work week and productivity went up. They then cancelled the 4 day work week because “imagine what they could do with 5 days”, using the experiment as a baseline for producitivity.