Why not giant tarantula sized?

hopital

All is forgiven. Jury nullification if necessary.

Yeah you stupid pay pigs, don’t you know economics!? Supply and demand! Just stop demanding the resource we spent decades making indispensable and kept artificially scarce!

They died from the shock. 😔

furaidopoteto

And “does the distinction actually matter”!

We’d have to double to triple the workforce in logistics and construction and other necessary sectors. A reduction in work hours necessarily means a reduction in standard of living - even with CEO wages factored in - because the overhead of necessities grows compared to societal achievements. We need the same amount of food delivered and the same amount of houses built, but now it takes two to three times as many people to do it. The same applies to doctors or teachers, so the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This assumes steady productive output. In some sectors, this assumption is wrong, but I think it’s a fair assumption for logistics and construction.

Putting all essential jobs together (health, education, construction, logistics, agriculture, food retail, utilities, public administration, plus the required manufacturing and IT infrastructure) is already 50-55% of the workforce. In order for everyone to halve their workday, we’d all have to exclusively work only for the status quo. Which means no watches, no smartphones, no TV, no cinema, no museums, no parks.

A reduction of work hours would be nice, no question. But we also have to remember that the work goes somewhere and time/energy/resource efficiency matters on a fundamental biological level. We have to be a productive part of society for it to function, and while this is usually co-opted by capitalists to extract money, it remains a fact of life.

E: We’re already having healthcare only because we’re re exploiting healthcare workers to the maximum. Even at the current status quo, treating them fairly would just not work. We’re already in a state of broken equilibrium between what we need and what we want. The healthcare workforce would have to double only for them to have a 40h work week.

And then there’s people with three jobs who still can’t make ends meet. I propose we make the 40h week work for everyone first before we reduce further.

Banquet my ass. More like shitty high school cafeteria lunch.

Have you ever looked at code and thought “oh this is beautiful”? Or - even better - have had someone else look at your code and say it? Pure bliss.

oh cool, i didn’t know about those!

I’ve actively started doing tickets manually again. Just reviewing is exhausting, and yes, in part because I’m overwhelmed by what I don’t understand. I’m somewhat new in our codebase and letting AI do all the work means I’ll never get to know it in depth. That means I’m not meeting the productivity goals managers have already adopted, though. :/

And it’ll even sometimes show relevant results!

Seriously though, noai.ddg is my default, but I still have to switch to google way too often.

estoy pooping

The bondage? Sensory deprivation, loss of control, loss of facial features, loss of speech - any combination of those and more. I find the concept very hot. Each padlock is +10 heart rate.

A high pitched scream of terror.

If you’re asking about head space, that might be your first sign of burn out. Stop it. Pick a stable, well performing ETF and regularly invest in it. Forget about it for 40 years.

Actual advice: Go to the gym or be otherwise active. I’ve been overweight my whole life (am software engineer) and just recently started investing in MYSELF. The workout sucks, but the results in the morning shower and the mirror feel good. Remember, after ~32 it becomes harder and harder to build and maintain muscle mass.

Some time in '27 probably. Don’t have to show my face during teams calls in the meantime. 🎉

And yet the rest of the world just moved on. No consequences.

Same as the Hong Kong protests. No leverage, no consequences. Those who could leave did.