Anymore? Real (inflation adjusted) wages are up for all income groups[1]. The lowest percentiles actually saw their wages grow more in relative terms than the highest.
[1] https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260103_FBC...
We have a huge surge of homeless people, mostly because renting one room was about $150-200 now it's around $600 for a crappy one.
People are struggling and the way you wrote that comment, you seem to have no idea as you are personally not yet a victim of the system.
Just think about how much one is struggling to turn around and burn a whole warehouse and how normal people are reacting to it.
29 days for a moon loop. 29 / 4.0 is 7.25. Every 4 weeks you'd be out a full day.
So yes, a week is a human invention.
Another potential fix would be having two calendars. A lunar calendar for weeks/months, and a solar calendar for seasons/years.
In every society, some of the brightest and best minds got employed as astrologers, astronomers, and designers of calendars.
ITS NOT JUST A PHASE MUM!
Before I left my previous company the CEO waxed philosophical about adopting the 996, even as we had above target profits for then nth quarter in a row and layoffs rolling over every department.
we really need to categorise this as mental illness in order to pushback. Its a symptom of hoardcurse, i.e. people trying to justify the assets they have through performance theatre, when they could instead just accept they're somewhat fortunate.
Tech just isn't compatible with unions. Most unions involve so much red tape that it would cripple the tech industry from innovating and just allow other countries with no unions to dominate.
You have always been replaceable, but there's a big difference between making $100,000+ with full benefits after going through years of high education and a minimum wage factory job.
I have applied the same approach in the US and I have never had anyone tell me that I have to put in more hours. However, I see a lot of movement over the weekend and at weird times (people working past midnight). But the thing is that no one is really forcing them, I think this way of thinking is embedded within the average American relationship with work.
I have observed this in my wife too. She stays past her contract hours but mostly because a lot of people in her company do the same.
I think this is a "self reinforcing peer pressure problem"
As the tweet goes:
> Europeans' out of offices are like "I will not be working until 18 September. All emails will be automatically deleted."
> Americans: "I am in the hospital. Email responses may be delayed by up to 30 mins. Sorry for the inconvenience! If urgent, please reach me in the ER at..."
So move back.. problem solved.
In a sufficiently competitive environment, players abandon a value for a temporary advantage. When other players follow suit, that value is gone, but the playing field is still level, and everyone is worse off.
Weekends are under threat because our jobs are. Everyone's keeping their head down to make it through the next round of layoffs, to avoid getting replaced by AI, to avoid a protracted job search.
Related: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch
This kind of refers to the past though. Anyone who is using Google search these days, curses how unbelievably useless it has become. This is how monopolies ruin the segment they dominate.
If there were real competition, Google would improve the search engine, or it would go extinct, and be replaced by something better.
The whole article is written really strangely. Was that written by AI? There seems to be some disconnect in the writing itself.
Timers would still work. Actions would then be more ad-hoc. The simple change would likely lower stress tenfold, and this is what can be measured.
How then would appointments work? Day offsets (from 0 to 2) would still easily work. People wanting to come in to see a specialist would just have to call/contact, then come in at any time of the day. Some would come in earlier in the day, and some would come in later in the day, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, and things would work out.
Everything would likely be slowed down in the immediate sense, but would this be so bad? Odds are that no; it would probably add much to happiness, and perhaps become more sustainable.
How would a big passenger airplane even depart? It wouldn't, and that's okay. Cargo planes and other dedicated airplanes would remain unaffected because they can depart when there is sufficient mass.
It would be like a return to old times, maybe to an extreme version of Italy. The early chaos, if managed aptly, would soon manifest as a longer and healthier life.
