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How much free time do you have?
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Re: How much free time do you have?
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is solved. Everybody can choose a job where they works less hours or become a freelancer and work as many hours as they want. This doesn't work on a global scale, but as an individual, that choice is possible. The problem is that people want to buy more than they can afford from doing less work. There is no way to resolve this. As long as there are status goods like sneakers for $1000, people will have to work the…
I don't agree, humans worked for 80 hours a week and then together reduced to 40 hours a week. I don't see why they could not reduce it to 30 or 20 hours a week. Everyone worked on a Saturday then suddenly most of the people stopped working on the Saturday, I don't see why it would be impossible for most of the people in the society to stop working on Friday too.
Because 40 hours a week are, if you remove vacations, holidays and sick leaves, on average roughly 4 hours per day. That's the amount tribal people work per day. There is no inherent human need to reduce that time further.
As I said, people can already work for 30 or 20 hours per week. Why is it not enough for you if you stop working on Friday?
Do you want 30 or 20 hours per week with equal pay? Then indeed you have to reduce the supply of work to rise hourly wages. But then, less is produced, the supply of goods is reduced and thus things cost more, most likely disproportionally more than the increase in wages.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#183I think commute time should count two or three times. I sit in the car for 80 minutes a day and I am totally shot in the evening so I get nothing done even if I have time. . On the days I work from home I work the same amount. After work I relax for half an hour and can do things after. Commuting is a real soul killer in my view.
You just made me realize how lucky I am. I'm commuting 2x 55min per day. I always think it's too much, but it's mostly by train. There is about a 50% chance of me getting 2x 35min uninterrupted reading time out of it (depending on the crowd).
Man, I ride my motorbike to work every day and it usually takes 15 minutes each way on average. Yet I wonder what it'd be like to jump cities and double my income. comments like yours and the OP really make me understand and value my free time substantially.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> 150 hours in a 7 day period > Doing what? Just curious. I can't speak for the GP (as I am not they), but can say I pulled a 118 hour work week once doing s/w development. Four 20 hour days for one client and the other 38 for another. Suffice to say it was not a fun week.
At that point, wouldn't it have made more sense to set expectations that their 1-week turnaround is realistically a 3-week ask, instead of working 20 hour days?
That's a difficult argument to make when you're contracting or a consultant and are expected to deliver X and not work Z hour.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The 40 hour work week is tyrannical. If you are stating this seriously, I often wonder why there isn’t a great movement toward a reduction in working days/hours in the modern workplace. It’s kind of mind boggling to me why we have to trade most of our waking hours for the majority of the prime of our life to make a living wage. Modern society should be solving for this.
It is solved. Everybody can choose a job where they works less hours or become a freelancer and work as many hours as they want. This doesn't work on a global scale, but as an individual, that choice is possible. The problem is that people want to buy more than they can afford from doing less work. There is no way to resolve this. As long as there are status goods like sneakers for $1000, people will have to work the…
> You can only have fewer hours if everything is standardized to the point that machines do all the work. But who wants to live in such a world of uniformity?
Sounds great to me. I don’t want a choice in most things anyway. I hate it when I find myself dithering in a shop over whether to pick this brand or that when they probably come from the same factory anyway. Let me work less AND expend less effort making choices!
Re: How much free time do you have?
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a 4 year old and I foster rescue dogs. I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
I get up at 4 AM for work (i.e no time to do anything in the morning apart from breakfast, brushing teeth and getting dressed) and most days I'm done at work by 3 PM, home by 3:30-4:00. My wife has already picked the three-year old up from day care. He's playing, watching TV, or helping me make dinner. I clean as I go when cooking so the kitchen ends up clean and the dishwasher reloaded/run during this time, then we…
> you can see how there's absolutely enough time for each of us to spend 1 hour/day doing health and fitness related activities while the other one takes care of the kid. If you're a single parent this all goes out the window, obviously.
Actually, I'm waiting for you to actually detail the sport where that hour fits. The dogs take up another hour or two, and require extra playtime.
For me, because I sync up with folks in the UK at a time reasonable to them I'm usually on the phone by 7am 3 days a week. I need to be in the office until around 4-4:30, and as I have to interface with San Francisco commutes I have a 45- 60m commute.
Honestly, maybe you're just using a different definition of fitness time. 3 days a week, my commute requires I walk a mile and get that done quickly or I'll be late for meetings. But that's just walking, it's not "fitness". I suspect folks here are rather generous with the definition.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a 4 year old and I foster rescue dogs. I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
fostering rescue dogs is where you invest your free time in. it's a worthwhile use of your time, and you probably wouldn't do it if you didn't get something out of it.
It costs lots of money and the people who adopt them never know me. I don't get anything out of it at all.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#188Well I know the author of this certainly has more free time than me. 7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle.
If walking quickly every day for an hour increases my life expectancy by 6 or so years it would have been worth it.
That's only exercise if your lifestyle is extremely sedentary. So yeah, you should do it. But it's a very generous definition of "gym/fitness."
Re: How much free time do you have?
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment bothers me on a few levels. 1. Is there some rule that people are only allowed to make decisions that make them personally and continually happy? There are any number of good and pure reasons to choose a difficult life and also remain human and be able to communicate the difficulties of that life. 2. Why the general disdain for people with more than the normal number of kids? This person that you have ad…
I think he's being more critical about complaining about it than about the decision itself.
I would agree if it weren’t a thread to talk about free time and if the OP was actually complaining and not simply describing reality.
Re: How much free time do you have?
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
fostering rescue dogs is where you invest your free time in. it's a worthwhile use of your time, and you probably wouldn't do it if you didn't get something out of it.
It costs lots of money and the people who adopt them never know me. I don't get anything out of it at all.
then why do you do it? (i don't mean to criticize your choice, but i am curious, and i wonder if we can discover a motivation or reward that you haven't considered. i certainly believe that you are doing something good, so i wonder why you feel you get nothing out of it)
edit: i just thought about this some more and i realized that there are plenty of situations that could have brought you to where you are. i don't want to speculate what though.