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Re:Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’ by carbocation on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:21PM (#17991065)
Unlike smoking, which all humans can survive without, society hasn't yet been configured in a way where we can survive and improve our lot without work.

So, even if your point -- that disconnecting one day a week is still 90% as bad as disconnecting all the time -- were to be true, it's also moot because that's not an option.

If your point is conditioned upon technology, rather than work, I would ask you to determine how to disentangle the two. It's not like working into the weekend is a new phenomenon (since, as we know, the concept of a weekend was only recently won).

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Re:Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’ by pbhjpbhj on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:46AM (#17993780)
Isn't the concept of a weekend at least as old as Sabbath, ie thousands of years?
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Re:Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’ by carbocation on Saturday September 15, 2018 @07:37AM (#17993893)
Yes, but it was only recently “won”: that is, most of western society has had two days off per week (to varying degrees) for just over 100 years if my recollection is right.
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Re:Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’ by Viliam1234 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @08:42AM (#17994060)
And we will probably never get to three days off (for the majority of population) despite all the productivity growth etc.
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