so i just sat down to eat my ‘im really drunk meal’ at 4am and sat next to this guy drawing and asked if i could check out his work and this is what he had just finished working on
this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long
like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal
doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY
i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong
this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.
even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste.
The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.
I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.
i would like the neighbour who has the treadmill directly above my bedroom to pleas start neglecting their fitness goals because the noise and the shaking walls are horrible and I hate it very much.
I wish more people were actually listening to TAZ Ethersea because, like… I’m really loving it so far. I get that some people were turned off by the unfamiliar system they’re playing right now but when I listen I don’t even think about the map they’re making, because that’s the big picture stuff. That’s more helpful for the players than for the audience, I think. I just visualize snapshots of what’s happening and I notice narrative themes that Griffin’s setting up and I laugh at their table talk jokes. I really truly don’t think you need to understand the mechanics of the game to enjoy it, and it just bums me out that a lot of people listened to one episode and decided that the world building portion was going to be confusing and boring
