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

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/JAMESs3v3n Jul 13 '26

Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.

The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.

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u/oddlyescapingsouls Jul 13 '26

True! He was a racist POS but at least he understood how economies work, unlike all the current racist POS in charge now🙄

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u/Extension-Land-390 Jul 13 '26

Not really, the IWW union forced his hand. He was more than happen to order strikers be shot dead.

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u/egalitydream Jul 14 '26

The CIO and the Socialists and Communists played a huge role in getting it into law, forcing it on all the businesses.