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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally I work 80 hours a week often, but I do it for me. It advances my career, makes my day easier as I move to better jobs and gives me more money. I don't intend on doing it forever and I'm not blind to what a normal week looks like. I want to retire early.

I can't imagine working like that because I need to feed my family / pay bills/ stay above water. It's a totally different situation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I've done that in the past and I just ceased to be productive after about 50 hours of work a week maybe 60. This was in software development which is a cushy number really.

The computer screen just becomes a garbled bunch of pixels with no meaning to me anymore and I have to stop. I can't imagine doing it for a manual labour job and I certainly can't imagine doing it for 80 hours.

I've done 12 hours shift jobs as well and they're in nightmare for productivity. But who cares as long as you've got asses on seats that's the main thing right? You got to look like you're being productive, actually being productive is more or less irrelevant.