The two-day weekend is a 100 years old.
The one-day weekend is ancient.
The weekend is 100 years old
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Re: The weekend is 100 years old
#12Thank you for the submission. I have long wondered if in the old days we had weekend off, and did we just work continuously 365 days? It is not that working 365 days is hard. It is the job in today's world are very different, Muti tasking, context switching and anything but simple even in the lowest rank. This is mentally tiring and I have also wondered if it is a recent thing. My argument is that cutting cost over t…
In the past, a professional job might mean extended periods of travel by rail etc with little work to do. A small acreage farmer has to wait for plants to grow.
The advent of factories with limitless and constant demand for labor is a new development of the industrial revolution.
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#14Other things that are surprisingly less than 100 years old include electronic music, Germany, Croatia, capitalism, the end of slavery, worker's rights, fiat currency, central banks, stock markets as more than a niche thing, and so on.
Re: The weekend is 100 years old
#15Thank you for the submission. I have long wondered if in the old days we had weekend off, and did we just work continuously 365 days? It is not that working 365 days is hard. It is the job in today's world are very different, Muti tasking, context switching and anything but simple even in the lowest rank. This is mentally tiring and I have also wondered if it is a recent thing. My argument is that cutting cost over t…
In the past, a professional job might mean extended periods of travel by rail etc with little work to do. A small acreage farmer has to wait for plants to grow. The advent of factories with limitless and constant demand for labor is a new development of the industrial revolution.
Even on a small farm there is always work to do.
That doesn't mean that there isn't any downtime though. Most activity would be confined to daylight hours if nothing else. You'd probably do less on rainy days, and avoid hard work during the peak heat hours in the summer.
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#16The lack of understanding about the change in day-to-day life over the last 200 years is truly unfathomable - I fully do not understand it but the little that I appreciate is absurdly profound in the differences It’s like we’re living on an entirely different planet than the people who existed prior to the industrial revolution Bertrand Russell’s grandfather was alive during napoleon’s rule and he speaks about the di…
It once came up whether my grandmother went to music festivals in her youth. Of course not, she said, they hadn't been invented yet! They didn't have electronic music, because they didn't have electronics. And nobody was playing guitar on stage for 12 hours. You could hold a short small concert in a hall, but you couldn't hold a big rave.
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#17I wonder if someday we’ll have a “monthend”, where most of society takes a whole week off at the end of a month. I think I’d like this better than a 4 day work week. People could come back truly rested.
With the shift to AI, it could happen.
Re: The weekend is 100 years old
#18Thank you for the submission. I have long wondered if in the old days we had weekend off, and did we just work continuously 365 days? It is not that working 365 days is hard. It is the job in today's world are very different, Muti tasking, context switching and anything but simple even in the lowest rank. This is mentally tiring and I have also wondered if it is a recent thing. My argument is that cutting cost over t…
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#19Other things that are surprisingly less than 100 years old include electronic music, Germany, Croatia, capitalism, the end of slavery, worker's rights, fiat currency, central banks, stock markets as more than a niche thing, and so on.
What year do you think it is
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