Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

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Post by carlmr » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 8:40 AM UTC

samdjstephens wrote: post #82

carlmr wrote: post #57

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>Our society is such that we typically work 8 out of 24 hours(33%) I always think you should look at the effective free time you have left. I can't do much in my sleep (-8h), I can't do much on my commute (-1.5h), I can't do much in my lunch break (I have to take a 45 minute lunch break by law, it's way too short to use it as actual free time, but takes another significant chunk out of your day.) I get to 24h-8h-8h-1…

To add to that - 5.75h free time might seem like a decent amount (although you didn’t account for things like washing, cooking, shopping which eat up much of the remaining time) but much of that time is after work when I’m normally fried from ~12 hours working/commuting/doing chores, leaving me incapable of anything that’s even moderately mentally taxing

Yeah, it depends a bit on how much you enjoy cooking, but there's definitely something to that.

Re: Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

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Post by SketchySeaBeast » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

Fjolsvith wrote: post #166

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #104

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You can negotiate yourself onto the street, I suppose the fresh air could be considered a positive life change.

A fresh perspective opens up opportunities.

Or gives you nothing to work with. If your only skill was "working at a gas station" and you got fired from a gas station, you better hope that there are more opportunities for working at another gas station, cause you aren't taking a "sabbatical" from minimum wage to enhance your skills to move up.

Re: Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

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Post by JulianMorrison » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

emaginniss wrote: post #138

JulianMorrison wrote: post #68

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I'm getting voted down but I'm serious... it is a cultural choice to feed people by paying them for work. And so work must be procured and time occupied by what is essentially walking a treadmill until the rent pops out.

That may be how you feel about it, but the employers feel differently. They wouldn't hire and pay someone unless they felt that the person was providing some value. Also, if you believe that one should have rent and food without work (and probably not paying for it), why would you expect those that provide the food and shelter to do their job without remuneration? Are you in favor of developing a class of people who…

I'm in favour of automating away 100% of the donkey-work. Slaves are an evil thing for a culture to have; robots aren't.

Re: Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

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Post by smileysteve » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #24

biggio wrote: post #17

There shouldn't be weekends. People should be allowed to take any 3 days off during the week. This will reduce unemployment and increase productivity.

Things like weekends and holidays are, in some cases, the only thing that let people who do certain types of work have any time off work to begin with. Someone I know worked at a supermarket as a cashier at some point and she asked for a few days off on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She asked for this a few months in advance. Her manager looked at here puzzled and sneered "What do you want off for?" as if it was s…

> Things like weekends and holidays are, in some cases, the only thing that let people who do certain types of work have any time off work to begin with.

Unless you're in retail or service (your primary example); then you don't get the weekends and holidays; nay you have less control of your schedule on weekends and holidays.

Choosing your weekends is also contrare, because as the other commentary goes, and a lot of psychology, your time off is best spent with other people.

Re: Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

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Post by Breza » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 2:12 PM UTC

2sk21 wrote: post #48

What I really need is a weekly study day: Spend a whole day just studying and reading something (which may be completely unrelated to my work). Some of my most productive ideas have come from such study.

I spend three hours a day commuting via subway. I've started reading textbooks about my field on the train and it's amazing how much it's improved my skills. I also read fiction and other things, which have their own benefits. If I ever get a job closer to home, I want to keep blocking off part of my day for reading/studying.