Re:After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
by c54 on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:50AM
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Sure! The work week and similar working legislation is a form of negotiating for one’s own contracts. It’s just that people got together and negotiated for their contracts in a group, and then wrote down that rule so that we don’t have to go on strike like they did.
It’s all part of the history of people getting together to negotiate for their own contracts, worth reading about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_labor_law_in_the_...
Re:After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
by kkjjkgjjgg on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:32PM
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People getting together to negotiate is not incompatible with capitalism. It is actually forming monopolies, which socialists usually try to make illegal.
So I am still not sure what that example is supposed to demonstrate?
Re:After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
by dgfitz on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:58AM
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> Who is forcing you to work 40h? I personally don't do that. You are free to negotiate your own contracts.
This is such a privileged and arrogant stance to take. The VAST majority of people are NOT free to negotiate.
Re:After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)
by kkjjkgjjgg on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:29PM
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Of course they are. Why wouldn't they be free to negotiate? Of course if you have few skills that are in demand, you are in a worse negotiating position compared to people who are in demand. You can try to acquire skills that are in demand, though.
Who is forcing you to work 40h? I personally don't do that. You are free to negotiate your own contracts.