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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9237181" data-attributes="member: 20564">The amount of man-hours &quot;stolen&quot; from workers if your wardrobe was made entirely by hand is ridiculous, from spinning the thread to weaving it to hand sewing the shapes.&nbsp; Yet somehow now people do other things.(US-centric view upcoming, I know some other countries are recognizing this.) The issue is that the 40 hour week is so ingrained as the &quot;proper&quot; amount of work, which only benefits the people at top.&nbsp; If something takes ten people full time to do, after advancements it's just as affordable to still pay ten people the same amount, just that &quot;full time&quot; is now 36 hours instead of 40.&nbsp; But instead we accept that we should still work 40 hours, let the powers that be cut down form ten to eight people, and take the difference as profits.&nbsp; Having a 40 hour week (and a 5 day week) was something worker demanded and got in the past, and it will likely take that again for everyone to benefit from technological progress instead of just the richest.&nbsp; Technological progress belongs to all of mankind, not just those with the deepest pockets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9237181, member: 20564"] The amount of man-hours "stolen" from workers if your wardrobe was made entirely by hand is ridiculous, from spinning the thread to weaving it to hand sewing the shapes. Yet somehow now people do other things. [I](US-centric view upcoming, I know some other countries are recognizing this.)[/I] The issue is that the 40 hour week is so ingrained as the "proper" amount of work, which only benefits the people at top. If something takes ten people full time to do, after advancements it's just as affordable to still pay ten people the same amount, just that "full time" is now 36 hours instead of 40. But instead we accept that we should still work 40 hours, let the powers that be cut down form ten to eight people, and take the difference as profits. Having a 40 hour week (and a 5 day week) was something worker demanded and got in the past, and it will likely take that again for everyone to benefit from technological progress instead of just the richest. Technological progress belongs to all of mankind, not just those with the deepest pockets. [/QUOTE]

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