I heard that back in the days, people used to just go when their work was done on the farms and there was no concept of 9-5 (these days seem 24 hours work). There used to be a lot of holidays. Is that true? If it is, then given the abundance in technology, why our work hours increased and why do we have such weird lives that we live to work?

  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    We need to fix this definition because it is wrong. Labor is anyone who gets paid to work. As opposed to Capital who makes money off of owning stuff.

    IT guys, engineers, doctors are labor unless they literally own the company.

    • Naive@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      I agree. The legal definition of a labor must be encompassing of these people too.

    • davad@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      unless they literally own the company

      And even then, most of them are still labor. It’s shocking how many companies outsource to people who ‘own their own company’ to avoid labor laws. For example, Uber.