The most obvious indication that "representatives" only represent capital... They never talk about 4-day work week. NEVER.

Americans certainly do,its fucking shocking how little time you guys get off

Yeah, considering how much more efficiency we've gained, we should all be working much, much, much less.

And not just the obscenely rich parasitic class of billionaires like fElon who supposedly do "work" running/ruining companies like xitter and Tesla, etc...

We deserve way, way, way more dead politicians and ceos to enjoy our time off.

At this point, accounting for productivity gains not fairly compensated since the 1970s:

We should be working half the hours, or be making twice the pay. Otherwise, capital owners should face the alternative of an organized general strike until these simple demands are met.

If our elected officials refuse to represent us to bring about equity, we must take it for ourselves.

Too many people are class traitors and useful idiots

"How dare kids today want more time off. They're just lazy" - Debbie, 68, retired.

America is a corporate captured state, and its only captured more and more since Citizens United.

and you think they're going to suddenly turn around and stop using you as indentured servants?

do you forget what the Republicans think of Europeans? they're libruhl socialist cucks, remember?!

We're not going to get it while there are enough stupid Americans to get distracted by culture war bullshit presented to us by the ultra-wealthy and political elite.

When I was a kid, America was often contrasted against Britain in that they were aristocrats and nobles who would run roughshod over their people, but American democracy would lead people to the light.

Obviously that is a steaming pile of poopaganda, but as things develop I start to realize that it's actually correct, it just only applies to one side, in that the "running roughshod" part has always been the case, and any laws made that supported the rights of workers were in place only as long as it took the capitalistocrats to lobby them back to nothingness, sometimes even worse than before.

I often think of that when conversations are held about logical, productive changes to the current way work is done.

Wherever there is talk of a 25-hour week, or a four day week, or any other measure that would improve quality of life while allowing work to get done as well - or sometimes better - this conversation quickly turns to how much less money these people would have to make and how the total number of hours of work per week would have to be delivered anyway.

It feels like somewhere there is an American capitalist with an uncut ruby the size of a cherry on their pinky and a freshly laundered wig of tight white curls raging at the perception that somehow they are being robbed of their due by this subhuman mass of parasites who are unwilling to meet the expectations of someone who could never meet those expectations themselves, and fully believe that obscene wealth and power are their right.

Anywho, I believe that the benefit that would come from normalizing 5-hour work days with a minimum wage of $20/hr is vastly underrated, and the resistance to that comes only from people at the absolute pinnacle of wealth, who are petrified that their influence and power might erode even a little bit, because they have not only seen what happens to people whose influence and power erodes, they have destroyed those people for their own gain. /rant

Today is Labor Day and I volunteered to work so I can take tomorrow off for doctor stuff.

I probably don't need the WHOLE day, but if I'm going to get poked and stuff, might as well.

Germany has it figured it out. Come on America, copy the good things not the historically appalling.

No but you see having to do a bullshit job all day almost every day is when life has meaning. How would life have meaning if I wasn't doing a bullshit job all day almost every day?? That's when life has meaning!!!

Okay, I agree, but what is the time off policy for Jacobin?