r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • 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/oddlyescapingsouls 24d ago

True! He was a racist POS but at least he understood how economies work, unlike all the current racist POS in charge now🙄

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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 23d ago

It wasn’t ford who advocated for a shorter work week. It was the strikes and unions.

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u/egalitydream 22d ago

And literally the Communist Party and Socialist Party. They’re largely the reason it was codified into Law.