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Re: Political extremism in the United States is worse than it was 20 years ago. T or
You do know there used to be a time when people worked as many as 80 hours a week and the idea of a 40 hour week was considered "utopian". Then unions and the government got involved, women took a greater role in the work force, and here we are. The fact is technology has increased our productivity so much that it has become pretty common for workers to do about 2 hours of real work in an 8 hour work day.
So is this just your magical utopia world idea or what? I don't understand. Most people, even the richest amongst us work much more than 40 hours a week.
You do know there used to be a time when people worked as many as 80 hours a week and the idea of a 40 hour week was considered "utopian". Then unions and the government got involved, women took a greater role in the work force, and here we are. The fact is technology has increased our productivity so much that it has become pretty common for workers to do about 2 hours of real work in an 8 hour work day.