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		pessimizer on Nov 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is 40 hours a week too much? That wasn't an industrial mental model, it was a utopian socialist proposal that took a century and a lot of blood to win.

Apocryphon on Nov 17, 2022 [–]

I mean that the mental model dates from the early Industrial Revolution (I previously thought that it wasn't created until the Gilded Age or the Victorian era), and is overdue to be revised given the rise of white collar work.

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