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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by traverseda on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:49AM (#15276929)
>it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

I mean, why do you think people arrived at the 40hour/week metric? How do you think we came to standardize on it?

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by vkou on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:17PM (#15277691)
Union lobbying.
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