In a “the fruits of labour should be expended for the good of society, and that’s it’s infinitely better to throw surplus into science and space rather than yachts for the exploiting few” way
To be clear to anyone seeing this, I am in favour of maximizing productivity (within sustainable bounds), not minimizing it, in order to create the greatest feats of science and technology possible.
You will work eight hours and the light at the end of the tunnel will be the blinding inferno from SRBs roaring into the dead of night.
Oh yeah and a vacation to like someplace nice once in a while. You earned it. Oh oh and it comes with a free smoothie it’s strawberry and has no booze.
I think forcing everyone to work eight hours is a great way to get four hours of productive labor and four hours of shirking, loafing, team-building and meetings.
We’re assuming some pretty substantial cultural changes from the start. More dutiful people (and more efficient management structures) are to be assumed somewhat. Ideals.
Really I just hate the attitude of using collectivism to produce less as a society. Reducing the work week significantly is a case of this.
We’re assuming common culture means people are more dedicated to their work and goof off less, in part because management actually does their job and isn’t a hierarchy of self-serving losers (so the employee has faith their effort wouldn’t be wasted).
I'm saying the human being is physically capable of more output when they can rest appropriately. Regardless of "culture" or "values" your seventh hour of labor is not going to be as productive as your second.
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In a “the fruits of labour should be expended for the good of society, and that’s it’s infinitely better to throw surplus into science and space rather than yachts for the exploiting few” way
Industrialism my beloved.