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commandtower-solring-go:
The problem with the idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of recreation as a structure for a day is that it simply can’t work that way. If I’m expected to be at work at 9, then my work day must begin at 7. Allowing myself a rushed experience to wake up and get to work. And I live close to work. So either my recreation or my sleep needs to take a hit, but for some people it could be more. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as a basis for full time work is honestly unreasonable at that point. Because it isn’t actually 40 hours a week, it’s 50 hours a week lost to a job, of which 10 is unpaid.
some of my coworkers have 2h of transit to get to work, which takes 4-5h off their free time. working full time is a bad idea and shouldve never been a thing
This is, it’s worth noting, by design.
It’s perfectly well known that people can only really “work” (in that they can only consistently and effectively perform tasks and create products) 3-6 hours a day, for 1 hour to 2 hours at a time. Generally speaking, the broad consensus among actual researchers is to aim for about 4 hours a day.
The rest of these work hours, and the associated sunken time necessary to get to and from these work hours, serves one purpose:
It exhausts people.
People who don’t have leisure time are stressed. People who are stressed need conveniences. People who need conveniences will pay for them.
People who are stressed also don’t have the energy to fight for their rights, having expended all that energy in just staying alive.
And let’s not forget that maintaining a clean home and providing food for yourself takes over 20 hours a week (appx 20 hours in-house, and varying hours spent running outside errands) if you are completely abled.
Yep. My husband has CFS, and it’s very precariously controlled through strict sleep requirements. But also the only position he’s been able to find that won’t aggravate the CFS or the post-Lyme disease syndrome that causes him extreme pain, aka the only office job that has actually gotten back to him, is a 1-2.5 hr commute each way, and only pays 3k a month. Which means that unless I get a job as well, we can’t afford an apartment that’s closer. But I can’t get a job unless it’s within the same limited geographic area as him, with the exact same hours, because he has the only car we have and needs it to get to work. So his entire day is get up at 6, shower fast, scarf some breakfast, and hit the road. then he doesn’t get back til 7 or 8 at night, has to scarf dinner, and we go straight to bed. We hardly ever see each other. His whole day is work then sleep then work, because if he doesn’t do it this way, he will be completely incapacitated by his disease that doesn’t qualify as a disability under the eyes of the law.
