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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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.