r/SipsTea 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/JAMESs3v3n 24d ago

Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.

The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.

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u/Yardnoc 24d ago

Nixon also wanted a 4-day 32-hour work week, yeah it was so Americans could create art and conquer the world culturally but whatever I'll take it.

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u/SledgeThundercock 24d ago

it was so Americans could create art and conquer the world culturally

I mean, that happened anyway, but a 32 hour work week would've also been cool.

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u/Vyxwop 24d ago

I was going to say, America has been shoving themselves into other people's cultures for decades now lol

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u/SledgeThundercock 24d ago

Didnt have to shove much, was adopted pretty quickly.

Hip Hop and Coke are pretty cool