Comment on 92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek—here's what they'd give up

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Rinox@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tbf the working conditions and life conditions have improved enormously since the tge early 1900s. Just remember that the early 1900s was still a Victorian era hellscape in regards to working conditions, with child labor, no rights whatsoever, no protections, 18 hours work days until you dropped dead at 40 if you were lucky.

  That being said, the issue is that in many cases production has gone up by 300% since the 90s, with no meaningful change in working conditions, just a reduction in personnel. A change is needed and this 4 day work week movement is a good thing.

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  • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not even a commensurate increase in average remuneration since the 90s

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Line go up

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• mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The extra productivity just increased profits for the company and raise the stock price for investors. The ability to use less manpower increased profits and stock shares. Slowing pay and benefits advancements for the workers increased profits for the company and shareholders.

  Companies don’t take the view of all we need to do is break even every year it’s about making more and more money every year. The actual people who put the work in to make those profits mean nothing to upper management and the shareholders they are all replaceable.

  If the stock market and mega corporations were gone and there were only small regional privately owned companies you would see a huge difference in workers lives.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably yes

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• 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right. It’s about incentives. I’m not going to work harder for more hours, but offer me more money and let’s talk.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to think the same thing. But it turns out, we’ve all been convinced into being wage slaves our entire lives for jobs that don’t really matter.

    Funny enough, the least skilled jobs that we found out are the most important during the pandemic are the ones nobody wants to pay well for.

    What’s even more ironic is that we’ve been convinced to do all of this while destroying the planet and every ecosystem on it.

    One day we’ll wake up and be old, and realize we spent our entire life working instead of doing the things that are actually important in life.

    You know, that, or the climate will break down, not sure which one will happen first since climate breakdown is happening faster every year.

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    • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Speak for yourself. I work as an electrician at a hydropower plant. I suppose you could debate whether my job role matters or not, but if you like the your kettle, TV, phone and everything else that requires electricity works, then I think you’d be hard pushed.

      I do agree strongly that some of the worst paid jobs are the most valuable. One of the best things to come out of the pandemic was a big push for unionism and I hope it stays that way.

      Unfortunately in our current society, we need to work. I quite like the idea of not being destitute when I reach retirement age. I’d love to spend all my time following my passions but I need to be realistic.

      The climate problem is interesting. Some countries are moving towards being CO2 neutral. I hope that others will follow them and it won’t be too late.

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