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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 141 points 1 year ago

Look this if gonna piss some people off

But you don't NEED shareholders

The concept is barely 400 years old

[–] OmenAtom 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't NEED to wash your hands between surgeries, the practice is only ~100 years old

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Women don't NEED to vote, the practice is only about ~100 years old

[–] OmenAtom 17 points 1 year ago

Theyd agree with you probably

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are a popular streamer, based on her usual content this take is most likely satire

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[–] spirinolas 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but you only work 60 minutes every hour, they work a lot more you lazy socialist!

[–] Viking_Hippie 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the kind of epiphanies she gets while eating her favorite cereal:

[–] liztliss 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You clearly don't follow her channel, this is definitely satire

[–] Viking_Hippie 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😁

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You don't NEED anything besides air, water, sufficient nutrition, and protection from extreme environments.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody expects the Maslow Inquisition! Amongst our needs are..

[–] Viking_Hippie 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

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 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can and do literally sell air. Because why leave money on the table, as exploiters are fond of saying 🤬

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They didn't even bother to make it canned. Reality is truly worse than fiction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maslow would disagree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, Texas ruled you don’t need electricity either.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Pretty sure having the 7th day as a rest day is a lot older than 100 years.

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[–] Sheeple 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ofc such a shit take would come from a fucking Facebook user

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Burn_The_Right 36 points 1 year ago

100 years ago, this woman's opinions would not have been permitted in mixed company.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you remove free time, people spend less money on entertainment, trips, restaurants, museums... Whole economies depend on that.

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[–] Omgarm 19 points 1 year ago

You also don't need a job.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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.

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

Not only do I need a weekend, I need a day between Saturday and Sunday!

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

I vote to make Monday that day

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

We don't need screenshots from threads

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Licking that delicious, delicious boot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

I think he's the reason why his momma cusses.

[–] Fleamo 8 points 1 year ago

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 8 points 1 year ago
[–] LazaroFilm 5 points 1 year ago

You’re right we don’t need a weekend. Just like you don’t need to sleep.

[–] moistclump 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Should we let mommacusses know how old Internet is?

[–] RIP_Cheems 4 points 1 year ago

Shut. Shut.

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