A workday was also like 4 hours or less in biblical times though.
The idea that people in the past worked long, grueling hours due to lack of technology is a myth. People had way more free time in those days.
Come in on saturday? Come in on saturday? I think the fuck not, my clipboard-carrying friend. People didn't die at Blair Mountain, Virginian coal miners and their families didn't walk through chlorine gas and machine gun fire, so that your ironed shirt ass could ask me to come in on a saturday. In fact, you know what, pass me that Springfield rifle, I need to talk to the boss.
And in a few more decades neither will unions. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.
that's not remotely true. The union movement is quite robust and actively serves a real need. The only thing that could actually kill the union movement would be a fully communist society and unions subsequently becoming redundant
I thank Pope Gregory XIII who introduced calendar according to which today is Friday.
