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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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The world has always been going the shit and will continue to go to shit until the end of time. It takes mountains to influence the tides of nations. You should take the responsibilities you can bear, but no more.

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[–] PP_BOY_ 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Bread and circus. There are some fundamentally broken aspects of society that can't be glossed over with a Mitsubishi SVZ-KP12NA 1 Ton 18 SEER Ducted Central Air Inverter Heat Pump Split System.

At no other point has the population been forced to labor as much as it does today, and yet we're still being asked to work more. We are enjoying none of the fruits of our labor aside from minor conveniences that we still have to pay for. Income inequality is worse than ever in modern history.. Year-to-year fluctuations don't counter the fact that we are on a centuries-running downturn that shows no sign of turning course anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People had to routinely work 12 hour days up to the 1930s. Labor conditions are bad now, but it's wrong to say they were never worse.

[–] PP_BOY_ 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you think there aren't billions of people in the world still working 12+ hour days today? Hyundai cars and Tyson foods are employing actual children in their factories and slaughterhouses in America and getting a slap on the wrist. We just wrote a few laws to make it so that white men didn't have to work that much as often and said we fixed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Is that true? Hyundai and Tyson using child labor?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Income inequality is the one statistic you can point to when all the other economic stats show things getting better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

At no other point has the population been forced to labor as much as it does today

Are you not considering the time before the 40 hour work week was implemented?