Well given the low likelihood that any of them have intelligent life the fact that you're able to ask means the chances are probably 100%
It's the best our stupid species could come up with after 200,000 years.
To be fair it used to be 60
Yeah but we didn't end up on the one with giant alien spiders, thank god
It's a simulation. The nothingness of space is used as an isolation barrier to keep us feeling important. Just another guard rail to keep the experiment going.
Coulda been born on a planet of ants that just work until they die.
Ants get shit done. Humans can barely function when you get more than 2 dozen of us together.
Ants are working together for the same goal though. Fuck this “can’t complain cause others have it worse” attitude.
See: AntZ by/with Woody Allen.
Go read about the whites first contact with Polynesians, they literally stumbled on utopia and HATED it. They were FURIOUS these naked people surfed and sang and danced all day and farmed for about 15 seconds and had more food then they ever needed. They literally never heard about work, they had dance crew battles and picked their leaders by if they could do any cool tricks on the waves.
This didn't happen
You sparked my interest, so I did go read about it. I didn't find anything like what you explained though. Do you have any sources?
Weren't polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?
Pretty sure it was the surf utopia thing.
Why is this sub committed to undoing all of the good work that was done on reddit? This should not be a screenshot.
Just some important history, the 40 hour work week was developed as a labor concession in the automotive industry.
Most workers rarely work only 40 hours, especially when you include the on-call time when employees are expected to respond to call messages and emails.
Maybe we need to learn something from our grandparents and have another movement for 40-hour work weeks.
Plenty of countries where 35-40h/week, or even less, is the norm (and I mean it as no "not counted" extra hours)
And it took a bunch of labor strikes with brutal crack downs on them to even get it down to 40 hours.
Henry Ford implemented the 40 hour week cause it made people more productive. Not cause he was a nice guy.
Minimum wage too. "Wait a minute, consumers and employees are the same people. If they're broke how are they going to buy my stuff?"
Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was nowhere near as physical as mine was.
Now I get to be a desk jockey, and it's fucking sweet. Gonna milk it, because I put my hours in.
TALLER
Baller.
When the 40 hour workweek was invented, most workers had a wife at home to do chores. Now that women are working, we should all be working 20 hours a week.
That's absolute bullshit. When the 40 hour workweek was "invented", men were working 12 hour days in factories and their wives also worked. The wives sometimes worked in factories, often worked as domestic servants for richer people, or did home-based work. Home based work was often laundry or cooking for other people, not just their family. They'd sometimes also finish goods that were produced in a factory. Both partners were working 12+ days. And, while women did most of the home cooking and cleaning, it wasn't as though that's all they did.
This system ended because the workers used their power and went on strike. The result was the Haymarket Affair and is the reason that most countries, other than the US, celebrate a worker's day on May 1st. The striking workers were attacked and beaten by the cops, and then because a bomb was thrown at a cop, the leaders of an anarchist group were rounded up and hanged after show trials.
Eventually the striking workers got what they were working for: an 8 hour day. But, it took decades after the Haymarket Affair for it to happen, and it wasn't something that happened because everyone agreed it made sense. It was a long and bloody fight where that was the compromise that reduced the bloodshed.
If you want a 20 hour work week, join a union, prepare to go on strike and prepare to be beaten by the cops.
Hey, it could be worse, we could have landed on Carboby-16, which has an 80h workweek.
I hate the random black pixel in the down left corner. Go away, leave me alone!!!11!
Now it has a friend.
100% actually.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
