We’ve grown used to blocking ads online — but what about the ones we encounter in the real world? Can they be blocked, how would that work, and should they be?
So, through my lifetime that “Work 8 hours” somehow evolved into:
Leave for work at 7am.
Show up for work by 8am.
Get an hour for lunch, unpaid.
Leave work at 5pm.
Get home approximately 6pm, if you don’t stop to buy groceries or something.
I suppose commuting and lunch are supposed to be part of those “8 hours of play”?
Al Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.
Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s
Super clever project, but goddamn does this need feel so dystopian.
I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.
If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play
No hours left for housework, eating, or shitting.
Old-school dystopias were a fucking dream compared to the modern world I guess.
So, through my lifetime that “Work 8 hours” somehow evolved into:
Leave for work at 7am. Show up for work by 8am. Get an hour for lunch, unpaid. Leave work at 5pm. Get home approximately 6pm, if you don’t stop to buy groceries or something.
I suppose commuting and lunch are supposed to be part of those “8 hours of play”?
Eight hours of labour, eight hours of recovery, eight hours of preparing for labour/recovery.
Al Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.
Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s
Also a work of fiction