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[–] eochaid 147 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't stop certain big tech companies from building giant campuses with cafeterias and housing so that employees can literally live, eat, and sleep at work.

[–] dojan 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine if they let us work from home instead. I already live, eat, and sleep at work, and it doesn't cost my company a dime! In fact I pay for all of it!

[–] jkure2 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What if we all just didn't go in? They gonna fire everyone?

And they can sell the office too (good luck lmao), we are doing the company a service 😌

[–] BotCheese 51 points 1 year ago

What if we all just didn't go in? They gonna fire everyone?

That is called a strike and why they work

[–] IndiBrony 29 points 1 year ago

This is what unions are for!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The US, at least, is far too individualistic to effectively do something like this without the people involved being far from unified, and without there immediately being scabs who are more than willing to take their place.

These people have been so indoctrinated into believing that unions, the very thing that would allow them to effectively do what you suggested, are bad. There is no sense of solidarity in this country.

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[–] grammaticerror 131 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If not for labor unions we would still be working 12+ hour days. The 8 hour workday and the weekend is all thanks to the courageous efforts of labor advocates.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, 16 hour workdays were not uncommon historically (there’s a reason non-US countries remember May Day).

If you search up 16 hour workdays now, you’ll depressingly find people framing it in a positive light. Capitalism is trying to make workaholism the norm and required to survive.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

And now kids in Arkansas get to experience the grind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have so much to be thankfull for to those that came before us. Standing on the shoulders of giants, how easily we forget.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

And this is why you support your labour unions.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dudes wearing Oakley's and Fox Racing hats would be saying they're better than you because you don't work 22 hour days.

[–] UltraMagnus0001 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand that culture. You get looked down upon if you say something and when I said we need at least 100k yearly in America, they laugh as it too much for them. We need more confidence as workers to demand more and unions.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, and these are the same dipshits that think there shouldn't be a min. wage.

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[–] CaptainPicard 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also the transition from drunk to sober would suck more.

[–] ante 27 points 1 year ago

Oh hell no. Permanently drunk it is.

[–] DudePluto 12 points 1 year ago

I feel like people would drink themselves to death more, or at least pass out. Been a few times years ago that sleep was my reason to stop drinking

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] cley_faye 49 points 1 year ago

Haha, as if there was not a push for people to work more around the clock than ever.

[–] Sylver 42 points 1 year ago

More job areas would have cafeterias, and I think we would see a lot of 24 hour employees

[–] Emerald 35 points 1 year ago

Omg I actually had this same thought the other day and wrote it down.

I just thought about how cool it would be to not need to sleep. You could have a whole 8-or-so hours to do whatever you want. But then I realized that if we didn't need to sleep we would likely be required to work longer hours or be otherwise productive during those 8-or-so hours. It's crazy how arbitrary productivity really is.

[–] TheLowestStone 34 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on having the world's most depressing shower thought.

[–] snapxynith 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://www.powernapcomic.com/ deals with a fictional world where a drug makes this corporate dystopia possible but a small percentage of people cannot take the drug making them effectively disabled from a normal worker perspective.

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[–] DrQuint 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Follow-up Shower thought: Sentient Robots will not require rest or sleep, and thus, will automatically suffer through this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Breaking news: Rogue sentient robot breaks into HQ and kills CEO with bare metal hands, posts capitalism was a mistake on social media. Experts blame video games.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Why would you specifically use the sentient robots for your grunt work and why would an artificial intelligence have problems with the same things humans do? Especially if an AI was made for the specific purpose of doing work. The reason humans don't like doing work is because evolution naturally selected for us to be good at things like

-hunting gazelles

-gathering berries

-making finger paintings on cave walls

-sitting around a campfire making ape noises

and not working at a corporation. For an AI, it'd presumably be the opposite, meaning that AIs would be about as content with their lives as humans are in their natural environment.

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[–] realaether 26 points 1 year ago

Investment bankers would like a word (but they probably don't have time).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they'd be mad that the damn dirt Labor union won't let them have 24 hour shifts.

And there will be beaten and abused workers agreeing with them because they've been convinced that working 24 hr shifts would be better for them.

[–] Shartacus 23 points 1 year ago

The willingness of people to lick the boots of their oppressors is scary as fuck.

[–] RogueSensei 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could feel the smile drop off my face while I read this

[–] MissJinx 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dude I live in a place where we have a month of paid vacation a year, plus some hollidays. Since I was having a hard time woth some french coworkers I went to look why they were always out. French people have 9.5 weeks paid vacation + a shit ton of holidays a year! They only work 9 months! I'm so depressed not to be french.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I did 24hr shifts a minimum of two days per week. Most times I did three days per week with 24hrs of OT. I did that from 2000-2017.

Now I do simple 4 x 10hr days.

[–] _wampa__stompa 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would you ever do that? And allow it to happen for 17 years???

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't really make sense. Try it the other way: "It's a shame we don't sleep 23 hours a day, then we'd only have to work for a few minutes."

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[–] bappity 14 points 1 year ago

if aliens invaded and forced us to work for them they'd probably have better work culture than us

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

South Korea is closely looking at your thread probably trying to figure out if there’s another way 🥲

[–] einlander 12 points 1 year ago

Healthcare workers and mental health workers already are doing 12 and 16 hour days.

[–] netvor 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the other hand, it would feel pretty normal to us.

Perhaps even our time perception would be probably a bit different. As someone coming from world where bodies require about 8-9 hours of sleep, the perception of time is naturally affected (if not dictated) by having series of waking periods of about the same length every day.

If there was no such thing as sleep (which might be a bit different than just "not requiring sleep" as you suggest) then we'd just be conscious in one continuous chunk from birth to death. Given what problems our brains solve by sleep (learning, sorting memories / feelings), if the brains were to do these things continuously, the consciousness itself would probably be at least quite a bit different experience.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Uhm.. But University work require you work for almost 20 hours per day tho?

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