• Nora
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      3 months ago

      Can’t have people having free time to do things that might undermine their power.

      What if they now how free time to create services that support eachother outside of capitalism?? Can’t have that happening. They need us exhausted and wasting our time.

    • kryllic@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      “Wow, a 4-day workweek has yielded amazing productivity numbers, imagine if we did a 5-day workweek!”

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      Looks like it was an experiment so they had a planned start/stop date. They probably want to get some more data and go through legal before fully enacting it.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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        Plus, they’re dealing with Japan which had a hugely different work culture to most of the world.

        These poor mfers were probably just stoked to have the insulin pendulum swing a bit - no idea how well it transpires in counties with normal conditions

        (Full disclosure, I’ll a kiwi, so we work hard but have basic protections, etc. No idea what it would do in America or Europe - probably still awesome, but I doubt it would pay for itself so clearly as the insane Japanese convention)