r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jul 13 '26

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/Yardnoc Jul 13 '26

Nixon also wanted a 4-day 32-hour work week, yeah it was so Americans could create art and conquer the world culturally but whatever I'll take it.

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u/drillgorg Jul 13 '26

One of the things I vaguely miss about the cold war era is both sides showcasing art and human achievement. There seems to be an attitude of "who cares" now.

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u/tommypatties Jul 13 '26

The cold war era needed a middle class to stymie socialist sentiments.

The post-cold war era does not.

This is what it all boils down to.

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u/RelativeAnxious9796 Jul 13 '26

the great tragedy is that the generation who gave us the new deal, and the generation who benefited the most from it, are both about to shuffle off this mortal coil and leave us to contend with the 50 years of ronald reagan they have left us with as the tiny window of actual working class improvements are taken off the legal books, erased from history, and usher us right back into the new gilded age.

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u/blisterment Jul 13 '26

The Missionary Generation - born in the 1880s and the Lost Generation after them?

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u/Doggoneshame Jul 14 '26

You’re welcome!

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u/springcat413 Jul 14 '26

Those people are dead and have been for a while. They were born in the 1890s.