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The reason we have vacation, health care, a social net, <70 hours, Edit: no more (the pleasure of writing on mobile sometimes...) 6 day work weeks and all that is because workers (blue collar, as oppossed to pampered white collar like the majority of us on HN) fought tooth and nail for it. Thosen riviledges we enjoy are bot something that came automazically during the industrial revolution. And assuming it will different this time is a grave mistake.


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> <70 hours, 6 day work weeks…

Where do you live? The standard, at least in Europe, is 40 hours and 5-day work weeks.


At least per my calculation 40 < 70.

In my country at least the 40 hour workweek required a civil war and a couple of general strikes.


It’s also true that 40 < 100, for that matter.

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