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PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME THEY SEE IT LIKE THIS TOO!
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I'm with you. I also have practical trouble handling it (I think I'm managing better than you, but maybe only through desperation), but I see the absurdity either way.
I managed school because it was fewer hours, more "vacation" days, you didn't always have to do much while you were there. Still, I was really starting to burn out at the end of high school; I'm not sure I could have kept it up many more years. (Granted, school life has other major downsides compared to work life, the most obvious being that you don't get paid.)
To make it worse, it seems part-time jobs usually have proportionately less compensation than full-time jobs (less pay per hour, less "benefits," probably crappier treatment from your employer). Even if you could manage with fewer hours, a lot of employers won't allow it.
Obviously, work needs to happen to keep society running (for now, at least) but we could function on less work per person. It's pretty stupid that we have one portion of the population forced to work 40+ hours per week while another portion of the population is in poverty because they can't find a job. Then there's workfare, and the government employees that administer workfare.
It was a lot worse in earlier parts of the industrial revolution. (60+ hours a week was common, some activists wanting eight hours per day were killed by police or arrested and executed.)
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Originally Posted by Gojamadar
Hi,
I feel sorry for you. It is a fact of life that we have to earn a living! It has never been any different. It's easier for people with talent and good business sense to get on. For those of us without, we have to make the best of the opportunities. Think of all those who can't find a job, either because there are no jobs or they are not qualified or are disabled to do one.
There is also the attitude! If I were you, I would have thought I was helping people to live, therfore I'm doing a useful job while I'm getting paid for it.
So you want a family? Childrean need a safe home environment, love and and sacrifice. Like your own parents did for you.
It is true that in this capitalist age some people are exploited, however many people enjoy doing a regular job and glad to help others, their community and their country to prosper.
Apart from the above, the 40 hour week still leaves you 8 hours sleep, 8 hours leisure time and two full days to do what you really enjoy doing. Ah and money to spend on some luxuries! And if you're lucky a peaceful carefree retirement!
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Great illustration for part of the source of this problem. The moral judgment. Anyone who acknowledges the stupidity of this situation is lectured like they're selfish, lazy, and/or just too stupid to understand that money is valuable.
Also, bad math. Aside from the "two full days to do what you really enjoy doing" (not really), the other five days of the week are apparently something like
8 hours of paid work
2+ hours of unpaid job-related work (commuting, etc)
8 hours leisure
1+ hour of unpaid household duties
8 hours sleep (assuming you instantly sleep when you lay down)
= 27+ hours per day
It's not true that it's never been different. Apparently, many hunter-gatherer cultures do not have a word for "work" in the unpleasant sense.
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We have kids and pay someone else to raise them. Very few families have the privilege of actually raising their own children. And nobody talks about any of this and just keeps putting pressure on the populace to measure up to our neighbors. It makes no sense. (((Hugs)))
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I get the impression that childcare has become more high-maintenance over the last few decades. It was a gradual thing, so older generations don't always understand that it has changed and wonder why today's young parents seem to be having so much trouble.