10/01: Go to work on your knees, get the country back on its feet
Britain now has the longest work hours in the developed world after the US
We spent one third of our life at work. Today, very few of us work in factories, yet we cling to our old working class habits:
Clock in,
Sit in your terminal,
Be seen to work,
Clock out.
Is this the best way to achieve our maximum potential or is this the CAPITALIST STATE grinding us to a halt?
Should we, the working class, have more autonomy in the way we work???.
Being forced into a snowbound, work from home, privilege for the past 4 days, I realised that my productivity was higher, I worked faster and had fewer distractions and actually felt happier. In a wired lap-topped world, far more people could work more effectively from home, in hours of their own choosing, if only their bosses would have confidence in them. They would be better workers, better parents and better people – and we would take a huge number of cars off the road.
Maslow’s hierarchy of need would suggest that now that most of us have achieved food, clothes, heat and toys, we could relax and work less, instead, the treadmill is whirling ever-faster.
This isn't our choice: The working class say they want to work less and spend more time with their friends, their families and their thoughts. We know all work and no play is bad for us. Working consistently for more than 45 hours a week will damage your physical, emotional and psychological health. Yet 1 in 6 of working class Brits is 37 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart-attack because we work 60 hours a week.
We don't stop primarily because CAPITALISM has locked us in an arms race with our fellow workers. If we relax and become more human, we fall behind the person on the next desk, who maybe working faster.
In the 1990s, the French insisted that everyone work a maximum of 35 paid hours a week. It was a way of saying: in a rich country, life is about more than serving corporations and slogging. WEALTH GENERATION AND CONSUMERISM SHOULD BE OUR SLAVES, NOT OUR MASTERS: where they make us happy, we should embrace them; where they make us miserable, we should cast them aside. Enjoy yourself. True wealth lies not only in having enough, but in having the time to enjoy everything and everyone around you.
Lets unite on this, a 4 day week, more time to overthrow the Capitalist state that imprison and murder us! I maybe being a bit biased as I’m not normally a reformist and I do work for the council, but sounds a simple and easy to work action, maybe we should encourage our bosses to think about it they’re probably too fixated and stupid, but, 20% less heating of buildings, driving to work and all that jazz!
We spent one third of our life at work. Today, very few of us work in factories, yet we cling to our old working class habits:
Clock in,
Sit in your terminal,
Be seen to work,
Clock out.
Is this the best way to achieve our maximum potential or is this the CAPITALIST STATE grinding us to a halt?
Should we, the working class, have more autonomy in the way we work???.
Being forced into a snowbound, work from home, privilege for the past 4 days, I realised that my productivity was higher, I worked faster and had fewer distractions and actually felt happier. In a wired lap-topped world, far more people could work more effectively from home, in hours of their own choosing, if only their bosses would have confidence in them. They would be better workers, better parents and better people – and we would take a huge number of cars off the road.
Maslow’s hierarchy of need would suggest that now that most of us have achieved food, clothes, heat and toys, we could relax and work less, instead, the treadmill is whirling ever-faster.
This isn't our choice: The working class say they want to work less and spend more time with their friends, their families and their thoughts. We know all work and no play is bad for us. Working consistently for more than 45 hours a week will damage your physical, emotional and psychological health. Yet 1 in 6 of working class Brits is 37 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke or heart-attack because we work 60 hours a week.
We don't stop primarily because CAPITALISM has locked us in an arms race with our fellow workers. If we relax and become more human, we fall behind the person on the next desk, who maybe working faster.
In the 1990s, the French insisted that everyone work a maximum of 35 paid hours a week. It was a way of saying: in a rich country, life is about more than serving corporations and slogging. WEALTH GENERATION AND CONSUMERISM SHOULD BE OUR SLAVES, NOT OUR MASTERS: where they make us happy, we should embrace them; where they make us miserable, we should cast them aside. Enjoy yourself. True wealth lies not only in having enough, but in having the time to enjoy everything and everyone around you.
Lets unite on this, a 4 day week, more time to overthrow the Capitalist state that imprison and murder us! I maybe being a bit biased as I’m not normally a reformist and I do work for the council, but sounds a simple and easy to work action, maybe we should encourage our bosses to think about it they’re probably too fixated and stupid, but, 20% less heating of buildings, driving to work and all that jazz!
