The eight-hour workday developed during the industrial revolution in Britain in the 19th century, as a respite for factory workers who were being exploited with 14- or 16-hour workdays.
As technologies and methods advanced, workers in all industries became able to produce much more value in a shorter amount of time. You’d think this would lead to shorter workdays.
But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
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Gardens (at Ocean View Farms)
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Evening rainbow. Missed the double. #latergram
Topspin Tumblr: Bloody's & Brunch with Topspin, MTV, CMT & VH1
Topspin Tumblr: Bloody’s & Brunch with Topspin, MTV, CMT & VH1
Headed to Austin for SXSW? We want to buy you brunch. Take a break from playing music and learn how to get paid for it! Sip the best bloody mary’s in Austin and shake hands with the music heads from MTV, CMT, VH1 and Topspin.
OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS! First come, first served!
This looks awesome.
“I Dream of Wires: Hardcore Edition” 2013 official trailer (by I Dream Of Wires)
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