We are all set to these 8-to-5 work hours, like it is the way things have always been or could ever be. It turns out this setup goes all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, when in London, because electricity was not invented, they scheduled work hours around daylight. The British set up that schedule, and here we are two centuries later, having electric lights and the tech to do our work whenever, yet still cleaving to it.
Where the sun rose at, maybe, 7 am and sets as early as 6 pm, workers really had no other choice but to live by daylight.
But somehow, companies still use those same 200-year-old standards in our contracts.
Why haven't we questioned this?
The real question I have is, "how do people justify sending their kids to schools that train them to work for someone else before they ever think about teaching them how to learn the skills they want to learn and become capable of achieving goals.
I feel like working for someone else should be the backup plan, not the standard. And it's fine if it's a backup plan for a lot of people, but we've built our whole culture around that being the standard, Plan A now, and that feels like changing that is a precursor to changing the 9-5 because when more people are their own bosses, the norms can change according to people rather than systems.
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Man, you spilling wisdom all over the place.
I don't think it's that no one has questioned it. But it feels like a very difficult thing to move or change. I see culture as going through solid and liquid states. War and financial crashes turns things liquid, but so do social movements and creativity, and just daring to be the person who does things differently.
We've been pretty solid for 2-3 generations now, and it feels like things are becoming more flexible again now, so I predict this will change in the coming years.
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Thats a very reasonable answer to this question. Culture really does solidify things.
Also I see it that as unemployment rates keeps going up all over the world, and side hassles become peoples real Job, as it's going on in some parts of the world, the culture would shift on its own.
What do you think?
It has to shift. The only issue is how smooth or ugly it is. I feel like we should focus on minimizing g the unnecessary damage by supporting smaller quality stuff and taking our energy out of the old system as much as we can because that money and power inevitably goes to the top.
It’s why I’m focused more on writing and music than my teaching gig right now. I may need my teaching gig to survive but I think the world is going to start rewarding us more for developing our passion rather than slaving away and trying to catch people with tactics. I like teaching but I HATE trying to convince people to trust me. My art can do that too, better than stupid ads no one knows whether to believe or not
I had to rethread your response for others to read and enjoy. Thanks for the feedback.
thank you. I hope I have a good brain 🧠
I have. I work 24/ now.