Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)

Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by fuzz4lyfe on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:35PM (#20771089)

>Who would punish them? The customers?

Future potential employees. If I go on glassdoor and read about this happening I'm either going to

A: raise my rates as I need to keep a larger emergency fund to deal with these guys

B: decline to work there at all

They end up only ever getting entry level kids to work for them. The system sort of works in that regard if you come from a non-traditional background you can work for a year or two at a job like that, skill up and move on.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by mikelyons on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:58PM (#20773488)

There have been many threads on HN where the debate is "Do employees have enough power to [punish companies] if they need" but none of them have really every made a coherent case one way or the other, but they seem to lean "no" Disclaim: My personal Anecdote^

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by ailideex on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:04AM (#20775698)

If someone steals my car, and I don't have a means to punish them, is it also okay for them to steal my car? I don't really get your reasoning here.

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Re:Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009) by mikelyons on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:45AM (#20778782)

Saying it's okay, that's up to you. Do they get away with it? YES!

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