working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay…….. being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS…. sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine
8 days….never thought about it like that 😓
This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off. They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.
I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:
grow my own food
find my own clean water
heat my house
shit in the woods
Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.
When the medieval peasant - the iconic, screwed over, worst off person of pop culture - had more days and time off than you, something’s gone wrong. And apparently something has been wrong for a while now…
By and by, the current state of our societal infrastructure is a painted over version of feudalism. But worse.
The povern to lower class are literally serfs, working for food and home that we can never truly own.
The middle class barely exists at all :/
upper class are the land lords, who charge us to exist to line the pockets of the regional kings, the corporations.
Who in turn line the pockets and control the king, the federal government.
Except its worse because we are fully capable of NOT living this way. We have significantly more convenience in this day and age and yet the wide variety of masses, (You know, the actual 90%) can barely afford rent.
The system didn’t change, it just gave itself a new name.
