Half of those “8 hours for what we will” are spent getting ready for, transportation between, and decompressing from the work hours. After time for cooking, cleaning, shopping, and other chores, we still get very little of the “what we will” hours.

When the 40 hour work week was brought in, working men were expected to have a wife at home to do all the household labour.

“8 hours for what we will” gets eroded pretty quickly now that both of you are expected to work.

This feels like billionaire propaganda. “Everything’s balanced and fair, we already give you 16 off. Work hard in the eight you give us” or something

I reaalllyyyy like the 4 4 4 movement as a modern successor to this:

Labor Day was created in the US to distance us laborers from the global labor movement’s chosen day, May 1st. A day that was largely established upon events that occurred into the US