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2026-06-10 11:32 UTC

Averages are not very useful for making sweeping generalizations. Workweek statistics aren’t just mean/average. There’s also regulated maximum working hours (48 hours a week here)

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@TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2026-06-10 16:18

The US has no maximum working hours, not even in the so-called “progressive” states. There may be limits in the public sector or in very specific industries (airlines), but this represents a very small percentage of the US labor force. I’m not trying to be US-centric here, and I know other places have better laws, but the average USian is extremely ignorant of their own labor laws and the US deliberately misrepresents its actual conditions to those abroad via propaganda. (That system is being allowed to break down for the moment but it is not gone.) This is what capitalism brings, and anyone who thinks they are insulated from it or that their country is ‘too civilized’ to go down this path is being wilfully ignorant. The vassal states will not be unaffected as the imperial core turns to open fascism.

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