The 8 hour workday should apply to white collar workers

You can study everyday in school get perfect grades while working a part time job. Then work 100 hours a week for $100k a year and be grateful for the opportunity. While everyone else was partying, doing drugs and getting laid. You were doing nothing but working and sleeping. Other people slacked off, showed up late or hungover while you worked hard and made sure to kiss your bosses ass whenever possible. Everyone called you a nerd, geek, loser, brown noser. But now you're making over $300k, still working 50-60 hours a week but hey atleast its not 100hrs right? And you have so much more free time now that you're wife's divorced you taken half your stuff and doesn't even let you see your kids despite paying more than half your salary in alimony and child support. Then some guy who looks just like your wife's new boyfriend protests in front of your building demanding more taxes for rich people and a higher minimum wage. I have a feeling no matter how many snooty economists from the ivy league college that rejected you for not having enough extracurriculars but accepted the high school football captain who used to cheat off your tests, tell you it's good for the economy you still won't support it

Posted Sep 21, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

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PrincessToadTool•

What?

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freescreensOP•

what?

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PotatoMastication•

now you're making over $300k

You lost me. How can a breathing, functioning human being make that much money and not use it to run away from a shitty lifestyle?

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ComprehensiveHavoc•

Yeah it’s called a savings account…

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freescreensOP•

and give up everything they've worked so hard for? they'll be making $300 million one day if they just keep working hard. Every billionaire on earth could quit their jobs and never work a day in their life but they never do. Every once in awhile they move to a temple in India for awhile to seek "enlightenment" but that's about it.

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bloom3doom•

It's the misogyny for me

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freescreensOP•

Don't think of it as misogyny, think of it as criticism of marriage. The alimony and child support system was designed to punish men for getting a divorce. The world's wealthiest woman is Jeff Bezos' ex-wife thanks to a $38 billion divorce settlement

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bloom3doom•

He's the last person on earth I would feel sorry for.

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fuckredditbutts•

OP needs to ask his wife’s boyfriend for some financial advice I guess.

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freescreensOP•

for the record ive never been married, I would only get married to a rich woman and only in order steal half her stuff in the divorce

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VonOverkill(edit this)•

To be clear, anti-work is not the same as cynical nihilism.

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freescreensOP•

food stamps, SS, public housing, min wage, even public transportation and public schools, have little effect on the white collar workers lives. Enforcing the 8 hour workdays on ALL workers would.

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This smells like oil and gas

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