• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    We started with an unlimited workweek (often 12+ hours a day all day) and reduced it to 40 hours with a weekend and a paid lunch. (Remember the movie 9 to 5 that was typical. Then it became 9-6 with unpaid lunch.)

    Around the Reagan era, Osha got defunded so it didn’t have time to deal with all the labor violations, which was part of the enshittification.

    Who knew it would lead to a nazi uprising?

    Turns out everyone did. The industrialist intellegentsia actually warned this would happen based on historical precedent, but the boomer generation was all fuck the future including their own kids. To be fair, prior generations hating later generatiobs was the norm by the time it was their turn.

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      I mean, the business plot aimed to overthrow America and make it a fascist state.

      It took a few more decades, sure, but right now I’d say they actually got everything they wanted originally and then some.