We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
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Literally was a post with a picture of Henry Ford with the caption “this man brought us the M-F 9-5” and someone replied “boooo this man”
But, even with sleep requirements, Henry Ford reduced it from the norm of 7 days a week, 12-15 hours.
So I’d imagine that without sleep you’d just never go home.
4 9 ReplyI mean Ford did under threat of his wife leaving him. He literally had henchmen beating up union organizers.
4 0 ReplyMy FIL's father bolted machine guns on the roof of the Dearborn plant to deal with strikers. Henry Ford was not a good human.
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someone replied “boooo this man”
You sure that wasn’t about the Anti-Semitism? It’s almost like the Great Man idea of history is a false one…
4 2 ReplyWhile it was a change for the better back then, it was a century ago. It's high time the work week gets reduced again while keeping the wages intact. It's totally doable.
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