Good: pointing out that the 5 day work week sucks
Bad: his entire plan sucks. Having 2 seperate days off means that there are no days for yourself, only constant work or rest
I like when he goes “this schedule won’t work for everyone but that’s okay. It’ll actually make my life easier when I have the day off but you all work”. No wonder reddit loves this dude.
To get a little controversial, this also extends into how Covid-19 has turned into bourgeois privilege. My friends were at a party and advised by contact tracers to quarantine for 14 days. When you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, taking time off work isn’t going to cover income +tips. So I didn’t feel it was my place to judge them. (This was months ago, she turned out not to have Covid.)
Same bourgeois privilege with Andrew Yang’s proposed 4-day work week. You think field, service, or factory workers will be granted that extra day off? Nah, this is PMC poppycock.
It’ll actually make my life easier when I have the day off but you all work
It’s this casual disdain for humanity that shows where extreme introversion can lead you where you start thinking the presence of other people is an abrasion to your quality of life and they have to be culled and managed with half-baked neoliberal concessions. Sometimes it’s good to be around other people and in touch with society.
pretty much ye. I remember him using the “but the royals produce so much tourism money for the UK”-argument like it isn’t dwarfed by France’s tourist income - with their well-dead royals and all.
No it’s worse than that, it’s because they “own” a bunch of property that is entirely managed by the state and generates a shitton of revenue, which the state gets in exchange for all their royal privileges. So in the liberal mind, this is the same as the royal family generating all that revenue, since they can’t imagine a world in which we both stopped giving them special treatment and kept the money.
CGP Grey being accosted by gangs: “Paying protection money is good, because its cheaper than the damage they would do to my store. There is no alternative, im glad i picked the right choice”
I don’t understand this argument. Like, is there someone who’s like “I can’t wait to visit the UK so that I can be in the same city as some rich old hag and the pedos in her family”? Is there someone who’d say “I was planning to go to the UK but now they got rid of the monarchy so fuck it”? Well I’m assuming there’s at least 5 people like that but I doubt they are very important for the tourist industry.
What if we work just three days and that’s enough to live your fucking live?
Yeah this feels like tech bro nonsense. Just take Wednesday off and keep the weekend. So it’s 2 work 1 off 2 work 2 off.
Checkmate libs.
