Did you know that before world war 2 people were speculating that we could active a 4 hour workday at 5 days a week?
How much would it change your life if full time employment was 20 hours a week and paid similarly to what a 40 hour week does now?
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Elegy · 46-50
Something doesn't seem right. I thought before WWI we were at 5 and a half day work weeks. that seems like a really short time for a mostly industrial nation to think they could go to 20 hour work weeks.
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
@Elegy people were tracking productivity increasing with technology and also assuming a model where we produced more durable goods rather than goods designed to fail over time like we have now. It was also around the time labor was making big inroads into worker's rights and shortened work weeks were still fresh in memory as recent accomplishments that could be taken further.
A lot of the people who believed these things were labeled Communists after the war and their movement marginalized and forgotten as a result.
A lot of the people who believed these things were labeled Communists after the war and their movement marginalized and forgotten as a result.