Keep you in debt and make you work 40 hours per week. That way you're too busy and tired to fight back. Add to that, lots of high calorie foods to keep you fat and even more tired. 32 hours per week while making the same amount of money (or more) than you do now is exactly what they don't want you to have.
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Not to mention being understaffed and overworked to cover for the freeloaders milking the system.
Mighty communistic of you to say so friend.A little advice don’t work for the man. I’ve been self employed since I was 19 years old. I’ve hustled far more than 40 hour weeks. I’ve known nothing but sweat, blood and hard work. I have excelled leaps and bounds compared to my peers around me. I love it. I love the opportunity to do so. No one gave me anything and I earned every penny and built a comfortable life and home for me and my family. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. You don’t respect what you don’t earn. Independence, freedom and self sufficiency go hand in hand with hard work. Who are you demanding that you work 32 hours and get paid more. Are you worth more? Work for yourself and learn a little bit about financial responsibility and learn more about the economics of free market capitalism. You talk like a commie. Opportunity abounds for those who work hard.
Mind if I ask what you do?
I’m a carpenter, a builder and a craftsman. I used to run the rat race but realized everything this post states. I just don’t agree with mandating and forcing a company or business to do anything. It is a vampire system but once you realize it you realize free market capitalism provides the way out. I pursued knowledge and forged my skills into a level where there is very little competition. I don’t advertise. I don’t look for work and I enjoy what I do very much. I have an old barn on my property which I turned into a shop which cuts out practically all overhead and allows me to make a very reasonable profit because of that. I’ve had the pleasure of sharing my knowledge to apprentices who have gone off on their own and been able to make very good livings for themselves. The problems that exist don’t lie in a 32 hour work week or how much you get paid necessarily it has more to do with allowing a worker to keep the money he earns and reduce regulation and taxes so that the cost of living isn’t driven so high.
Sounds like you enjoy what you do and are good at it. Kudos.
Spare a thought for the lesser people who either did not have your advantages or were just not born as smart as you. There is no reason to work people into the ground just so they can keep their heads above water. Robots in factories are cheap enough now that we don't even need people to slave like that. Anything which shortens the "working week" is a positive.
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What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
Fact becomes fiction?
Fiction becomes fact?
When does news become propaganda? Identity creation?
*How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction? *
Turn off the news, turn off the t.v. Unplug yourself from “their” system.
The free market economy is a beautiful thing. I lived on park benches and didn’t have a penny to my name. I was a degenerate and I barely graduated high school. The change in my life came from my encounter with Jesus Christ and he showed me personal integrity and a servants heart. Start by reading scripture and giving thanks to God for the opportunity to be a part of this existence. Humility and Gratitude are your keys to life. Discernment of truth comes through reading Gods word and meditating in prayer and communion with him, and then begin by doing everything you do as if it is for him. Become his friend. I sweep floors with a dedication that it is for God. I hold that alone as the reason I don’t have to advertise for work. Credit and the interest based system is slavery get yourself free from it. Life is a grind don’t believe the illusion that it’s not. Maybe some people don’t have it that way but from what I gather they are mostly self absorbed miserable people. You don’t respect what you haven’t earned. I have worked for the whole gambit of wealthy, successful and famous people. I enjoy being around simple, hard working, God fearing men and women, they have a peace and joy that the rest of the world lacks. Read biographies and historical accounts, it brings perspective. Help others
Thanks.
One of the biggest problems I see with my peers and these younger generations within this society is the perception that hard work is a bad thing. I hope what I post might inspire people and possibly motivate them to turn off the tv and step away from an artificial reality on the computer screen. Caught up with fables and lies created to distract you from the sweat and blood of life. I don’t take my vehicles to a mechanic, I am my own mechanic. I have a garden and work the earth and grow food. I am constantly improving the property I live on and inventing and creating methods for self sufficiency. I am a musician and play music. I have horses and work and train horses. I enjoy failing when learning new skills and figuring out how to do it better. I am constantly reading books and always learning new things. I wake up every morning and read scripture and do so before I go to bed. The only thing I don’t have is enough time in the day. I enjoy life and I enjoy feeling beat down and exhausted from accomplishing tasks, I enjoy stepping back and seeing my creations and accomplishments, it is rewarding, but I look around and most people lack a curiosity and passion for life and it is a sad state of affairs.
Agreed. If everyone worked part time and focused on their own spiritual growth while spending time with friends, family the other time, we would all be much less stressed.
Amen brother
Hard work is good for you. Being productive and having purpose is good for you.
You can't be abused at work. You have to be treated fairly, honestly, and with human dignity.
How you feel about what you do, caring about the quality of your work, is more important than how much you make. Live within your means and be prudent, especially if you are buying something on credit.
You were created to work and be productive, it's central to who you are, it is part of the essence of who you are.
Get all the above in line and you can work your ass off, Brother, which is a very American thing to do.
That's our history, that's how we got to where we are. We outworked everybody.
Said masters to slaves since forever. Don't fall for it.
Let's not forget all the TAXES ON EVERYTHING, EVEN THINGS YOU OWN OUTRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! Just their little icing on the cake. Fuck the IRS.
I read President Trump has been working to remove the central banking system. City of London, Vatican City, and the stinky swamp in DC.
People worked far more than 40 hours b4 that was the standard.
The problem is that modern work is mostly sitting -- the absolute worst thing for energy.
Movement, purpose, and challenge will do a lot for energy. Alot.
I have no idea why this is on a gaming site, but it's a nice concise writeup of the pre-industrial workweek (the real one, not RPGing):
https://www.lostkingdom.net/medieval-workday-working-hours/
Henry Ford invented the concept of the 40 hour work week for his drones to work his assembly lines. People who worked those jobs had no idea that they were disposable chattel for a rich asshole who was funding an anti-democracy, totalitarian nazi regiem that later killed their sons, and have been working to overthrow America for 75+ years.
Uh... Ford implemented a standard 40 hour work week while the norm at the time was 10-16 hour work days. It was to allow people more time to spend money on leisure.
He paid well compared to others to grab the most skilled workers and quite literally birthed the middle class.
I think you are speaking out your hat here
Sorry, I have never bought into the "assembly lines are great jobs, and promote your freedom and well being, comrade" corporate propaganda. And I'm never going to either. Those jobs are fine up to a point, but I don't see them as healthy lifetime career type jobs for most people either.
And Ford specifically designed his assembly lines in such a way as to obfuscate how his cars were built, contrary to the notion of Ford being a "good guy" type of boss. He was a corporatist asshole of the highest order, and scavenged off of his employees- and that is excluding the likelihood that he scavenged technology for his inventions from other inventors as well. Ford was part of the big club, and far from being the benovolent hero that the big club likes to portray him as. And he is the reason for why people work 40 hours per week slaving at shity little jobs to this day. The big club liked the idea of their peasants giving them 40.
Did you miss everything I wrote?
You say this as if it is a bad thing?
Ford was aware the job was piss boring. That is why he incentivized people with big pay.
Ford isn't part of the "Big Club"
He was actually quite against it for reasons that history hides
I read what you wrote, and I've read the history of Ford. I think the popular history about Ford is tinted with rose colored glasses, is all.
Did you read about the Dearborn Independent and the literature he sold at his dealerships?
The commonality between Henry Ford and Dearborn MI- Jew haters. Second highest concentration of Muslims in the nation, behind Detroit. That isn't a coincidence either. Nazis were the useful idiots for the Muslims- see modern Germany for proof.
Ford was my first redpill
Working just enough to pay the bills seems to be their plan. They want everyone in debt and unable to pay it off.
40 hour work week is enough you can't do two jobs but not enough to get yourself out of debt. It's perfect for them.
What is the typical work week supposed to be.
The 40 work week was to standardize work and leisure. People were working 10-16 hour days in the 1900s.
24 would be better
6 hrs a day, 4 days, BANG long weekend who's with me
I’m with you!
Ideal work week: tue, wed, thurs
Off: fri, sat, sun, mon
Shit I've been working 65 hours a week. I thought the same thing. But I figure I just use my money to prepare for what's to come. Food, water, metals ,ammo I'll work till the dollar falls then work at home once money is worthless
Try working 100 hour weeks for 15-20 years and then retire. Worked for me. Think of the hours the first settlers put in to raise their families and maybe you will be embarrassed by your 32 hour suggestion.