Re:Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
by frostirosti on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:07AM
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It's really sad to see that people have all but forgotten how hard our grandparents and great grandparents fought to have a 40 hour work week. It's also sad that while our GDP has gone up so little of that prosperity has translated into better living/working conditions.
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Re:Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
by enraged_camel on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @09:57AM
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>>It's really sad to see that people have all but forgotten how hard our grandparents and great grandparents fought to have a 40 hour work week.
Yep. And people here harp on unions a lot, but we owe two-day weekends to unions.
Re:Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
by knd775 on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:46AM
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I don't think that many people believe that unions were always unnecessary. They were vital in a time where employers could just do what they wanted. Nowadays, though, unions are built on greed and laziness.
Re:Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
by jjoonathan on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:01PM
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That's certainly the perception, but I still have to wonder how true it is vs how much is propaganda. Still, even if it is true that unions weren't necessary for a period of time, they most certainly have become necessary once again:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottwinship/2014/10/20/has-ineq...
How else do you interpret "the wedge" except as the failure of labor to advocate strongly enough for its interests?
Re:Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
by s73v3r on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:37PM
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And big companies aren't? They aren't built on greed and squeezing every last bit of productivity out of someone for the absolute minimum they can pay?
Seriously, the only reason people have that perception is because big companies have the money to run smear campaigns against labor.