We're supposed to work +40h a week with no money and no time for family

I’m going to be a generous boss to my geriatric employees and allow them one day off a year to get hip surgery

>Why are we working nearly the same hours as 100 years
Are we? Because I happen to know that my great grand fathers on my father's side worked on saturdays and had 16 hour shifts at the factory and on my mother's side they worked on their own farm from 5 in the morning to 7 in the evening and went to bed by 8 and had to plow with a horse because they couldn't afford a tractor.

It is still nothing compared to increase in productivity, and I am also including entire world's population into the equation.

You need to work more to sustain a higher standard of living. If you want to live like in the old days you can go live like the Amish for cheap. Turns out life is pretty cheap if you don't need power, sewage, insulation, an engineered house, modern healthcare, the internet, electronics, mass produced tools and widgets, and live off potatoes and goat's milk

The real redpill is that people who become rich and advance social class typically work around 80 hours/week.
t. I used to work in a finance office, the biggest earners pretty much did nothing but worked

It is always, without fail, some richfag who got their overpaid job through nepotism, who writes articles like this

If you were a billionaire you'd probably be just as miserable as you are now, only difference is you could numb yourself with an endless supply of drugs and underaged hookers until you gracelessly overdose at 27

How else will the ruling class afford their lobbyists, "charitable foundations" that mysteriously support their political belies while allowing them to write off a huge amount of taxable income, their vanity projects, AND their teams of layers?

I don't know how it is in other parts of the world, and frankly I couldn't give two fucks about harsh conditions in the third world. My point is merely that I spend about half of the time working compared to my great grandparents and I enjoy a level of prosperity and wealth that would be unimaginable to them, i.e. I could afford buying my own apartment in the city and live alone, whereas my great grandparents on my father's side never owned their homes and always lived on rent.

This is a poorfag cope, there are no miserable billionaires

took a revolution for us to have 8 hour work day so I'd imagine reducing it would require a full scale nuclear war

I only work 20 hours a week and got a raise.

You move all the shitty factories eith shit conditions to bangladesh and now somehow we can now claim great strides in working conditions. You need to see the entire picture to make any sort of generalization about this subject, just as you can't claim energy isn't conserved just after you only see earth without the sun.

>there are no miserable billionaires
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

>muh meme treadmill
Yeah I'd rather be rich having a little bourgeois existential crisis than be an actual poorfag with no hope for a better life in India or Africa

That is why many rich people can develop extremely weird or obscure hobbies.

>You move all the shitty factories eith shit conditions to bangladesh and now somehow we can now claim great strides in working conditions.
And in ten-twenty years time, bangladeshians are going to experience wealth growth just like china and factory workers will be replaced by robots. You need to read some Stephen Pinker, my friend. The world is progressing, but people are obsessing about the negative stuff.

well yeah, its objectively better but you'd probably still feel as miserable, except you could afford a psychiatrist at $500/hour to tell you why you feel like shit or whatever gay shit richfags do

>Donnelly and Norton reviewed the literature and found that money contributes to happiness to meet basic needs -- but above a certain level, more money does not yield much more happiness.
>What made their research unique was their survey of 4,000 millionaires who are clients of a financial institution -- such a survey had never been done on people with that exalted level of wealth. What they found is that people with a net worth of $10 million are significantly happier than those in the $1 million to $2 million range.
Lack of data has always been a problem with these studies, but pretty much every large survey of multimillionaires proves that the richer you are, the happier you are. This is demonstrable proof, not some meme theory.

And it shouldn't be a surprise considering that people consistently rank work problems and finances as their biggest stressors.

youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg

Robot replacement in manufacturing is a meme since half a cntury ago. Even uf that ever happens, it would only mean more bangladesh people in poverty. Majority of newly urban population are living in slums while suffering unemployment.

Pinker is factually wrong on pre-history, and his books are shit. Obviously we live better with technological advancements and generally more goods, but the relative exploitation has also increased. Significant part of the world and 40 percent of americans are under debt slavery, and supermajority of the world live from paycheck to paycheck when we have so plenty. Why not conquer what is being denied for majority with force and resolve this absurd contradiction?

on my time, of course
that's still free time because I can listen to music

Money is one of the most important thing in life. It brings you security, food and a home. Trust me I’d prefer to cry in a big ass home than under a bridge.

Just cope by praying that you will be reborn as a rich guy in your next life my dude

oh no the poles figured it out

>that's still free time because I can listen to music
I wouldn't consider it free time though.

>Robot replacement in manufacturing is a meme since half a cntury ago
It really isn't a meme today.
>Even uf that ever happens, it would only mean more bangladesh people in poverty.
Maybe, maybe not, depends on how early it arrives.
>Pinker is factually wrong on pre-history, and his books are shit
kek, okay, whatever dude.

>Significant part of the world and 40 percent of americans
Don't lump americans in with the rest of the world, dude. You're the weird one out among the western countries.

Unless we have perfect robots that are completely humans(which we had not even made a single real progress on), someone has to manage and control those robots. But people who do that will be middle class who is educated, not the majority who will only fall further into abyss.