I'm glad, but you're saying it like you'd expect that everyone follows her lol. There are in fact literally tens if not hundreds of millions of content creators that I don't follow 😁
It's just one of those examples that helps us realize how extremely easy it is to misinterpret information without the appropriate context, yet we consume endless context-less content and all the time our brains assume we know the meaning and assigns some kind of judgement on the information or person, but without that appropriate context we really have no idea whatsoever, but we're constantly building a worldview based on what we're reading and seeing even though we really aren't getting it right at all. Isn't that just a mind fuck?
I used to work as a utility locator. I was the guy who would mark the lines in your yard when you "Call 811 before you dig".
The company I worked for was so badly managed that I'm shocked they haven't gone under or been sued out of existence, but it may have just been this one regional office. They expected everyone to work 12 hours per day, six or seven days a week, and when it was your turn on call, you would be working all night. It will wear your mind down like you wouldn't believe. I worked there for a year. I almost lost my wife. A long-time friend died, and they told me I couldn't go to his funeral. (I went to the funeral. I had figured out they couldn't afford to fire anyone) I very nearly crashed the company truck a few times from lack of sleep.
What finally made me see sense and go find literally any other job was one night I was trying to get to sleep, and there was a police helicopter flying back and forth over my neighborhood. They were flying around when I had to go out on a call at 11 pm, and when I got back home at 1 am they were still flying around. I found myself seriously considering shooting the helicopter out of the sky just so I could get an hour of sleep. I don't want to hurt anyone. I don't want to shoot at anyone. But I had not been able to get more than a half hour of sleep for two days and I wasn't thinking clearly.
All but one of which are made expensive through artificial scarcity so that rich leeches can leech some more. And they're selling air too, just haven't found a way to legally limit access to it yet.
Pre-industrial revolution, most people worked about half of days. A shit tonne during harvest season, and as needed at other times, averaging out to about one in every two days of the year. No specific fixed weekend needed.
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 141 pts · 2y
Look this if gonna piss some people off
But you don't NEED shareholders
The concept is barely 400 years old
OmenAtom@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 2y
You don't NEED to wash your hands between surgeries, the practice is only ~100 years old
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 2y
Women don't NEED to vote, the practice is only about ~100 years old
OmenAtom@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Theyd agree with you probably
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 70 pts · 2y
I wonder what they do for a job, and i wonder how many hours a week they work.
I would imagine its less then 38 a week.
liztliss@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
They are a popular streamer, based on her usual content this take is most likely satire
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
It's 100% satire.
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah, but you only work 60 minutes every hour, they work a lot more you lazy socialist!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 2y
This is the kind of epiphanies she gets while eating her favorite cereal:
liztliss@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You clearly don't follow her channel, this is definitely satire
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I'm glad, but you're saying it like you'd expect that everyone follows her lol. There are in fact literally tens if not hundreds of millions of content creators that I don't follow 😁
liztliss@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
It's just one of those examples that helps us realize how extremely easy it is to misinterpret information without the appropriate context, yet we consume endless context-less content and all the time our brains assume we know the meaning and assigns some kind of judgement on the information or person, but without that appropriate context we really have no idea whatsoever, but we're constantly building a worldview based on what we're reading and seeing even though we really aren't getting it right at all. Isn't that just a mind fuck?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 52 pts · 2y
Anyone who beleives this clearly hasn't worked a 6 or 7 day work week. That shit grinds you down until there's nothing left
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I used to work as a utility locator. I was the guy who would mark the lines in your yard when you "Call 811 before you dig".
The company I worked for was so badly managed that I'm shocked they haven't gone under or been sued out of existence, but it may have just been this one regional office. They expected everyone to work 12 hours per day, six or seven days a week, and when it was your turn on call, you would be working all night. It will wear your mind down like you wouldn't believe. I worked there for a year. I almost lost my wife. A long-time friend died, and they told me I couldn't go to his funeral. (I went to the funeral. I had figured out they couldn't afford to fire anyone) I very nearly crashed the company truck a few times from lack of sleep.
What finally made me see sense and go find literally any other job was one night I was trying to get to sleep, and there was a police helicopter flying back and forth over my neighborhood. They were flying around when I had to go out on a call at 11 pm, and when I got back home at 1 am they were still flying around. I found myself seriously considering shooting the helicopter out of the sky just so I could get an hour of sleep. I don't want to hurt anyone. I don't want to shoot at anyone. But I had not been able to get more than a half hour of sleep for two days and I wasn't thinking clearly.
Smeagol666@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
I feel you. Lack of sleep will make you an angry motherfucker.
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social · 51 pts · 2y
You don't NEED anything besides air, water, sufficient nutrition, and protection from extreme environments.
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 38 pts · 2y
My 5 year-old nephew told me yesterday that he needs a new Pokemon. Can you add that to the list? He really needed it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Nobody expects the Maslow Inquisition! Amongst our needs are..
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
All but one of which are made expensive through artificial scarcity so that rich leeches can leech some more. And they're selling air too, just haven't found a way to legally limit access to it yet.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
They can't sell it, but they can pollute air and then sell you "time off" on the clean air of their resorts, which is good enough
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
They can and do literally sell air. Because why leave money on the table, as exploiters are fond of saying 🤬
ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
They didn't even bother to make it canned. Reality is truly worse than fiction.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
Maslow would disagree.
ramble81@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Hey, Texas ruled you don’t need electricity either.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 2y
Pretty sure having the 7th day as a rest day is a lot older than 100 years.
Dkarma@lemmy.world · -50 pts · 2y
What if I told you most of the world doesn't believe that at all.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Chritianity and Islam are the largest religions in the world.
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Oops, meant to edit rather than reply to myself. See below comment.
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y
To allow people to check: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations. Together, Christianity and Islam adherents make up ~56% of the world's population.
esscew@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 2y
As an atheist, I'd say you live in a bubble.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
I believe the Abrahamic faiths, or societies created roughly from their rules, cover the majority of humanity.
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
What if I told you, that doesn't affect the date at all?
Sheeple@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
Ofc such a shit take would come from a fucking Facebook user
M137@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 2y
Everything about it is perfect. The shitty take, using threads, the cringy profile picture.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was fake, but it probably isn't.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
It's satire.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y
100 years ago, this woman's opinions would not have been permitted in mixed company.
lorez@lemm.ee · 34 pts · 2y
If you remove free time, people spend less money on entertainment, trips, restaurants, museums... Whole economies depend on that.
spudwart@spudwart.com · 3 pts · 2y
It's not about the economy, it's about widening the class gap and inflicting suffering.
Omgarm@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
You also don't need a job.
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 2y
Not only do I need a weekend, I need a day between Saturday and Sunday!
ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
I vote to make Monday that day
prole@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
4 day work week ftw
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2y
Can we push that to 0 day. We can take our time, just let's do it in my lifetime. I'll do the creative thing I want to do when I don't need to work
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 2y
My mind goes to that snippet going around some time ago about peasants having 100+ holidays a year.
Like, yeah. People need ample time off. Even feudal lords knew their surfs needed time off.
Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social · 16 pts · 2y
We don't need screenshots from threads
jherazob@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
Licking that delicious, delicious boot
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 2y
And women don't need the right to vote! We don't need to ban child-labor, or even slaves! We don't need any laws about health or safety at all!
I realize I'm falling for the rage-bait... but fuck outta here with that nonsense.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Sssssatire
onlooker@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
I think he's the reason why his momma cusses.
Fleamo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Let's check in on what was going on 100 years ago, see if weekends are doing any good...
Oh yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1917–1923
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Objectively false:
https://youtu.be/hvk_XylEmLo?si=XtE1VmVW5sHuUY8A
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
You’re right we don’t need a weekend. Just like you don’t need to sleep.
moistclump@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Sigh. Oh, sweetie.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Saaaaaatire
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Shut. Shut.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Should we let mommacusses know how old Internet is?
MxM111@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
The first and third lines are true.
oo1@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
The final one is only half true.
sab@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
The concept of the Sabbath is not exactly a new idea.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y
That was invented by Ozzie Osborne in 1968.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
The second one is also true.
Pre-industrial revolution, most people worked about half of days. A shit tonne during harvest season, and as needed at other times, averaging out to about one in every two days of the year. No specific fixed weekend needed.
MxM111@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
You are saying that weeks would not end?
Sheeple@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
archomrade@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y
This is exactly the kind of take I expected to see on threads
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y