suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you’re in, somehow?

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        You short-sighted investors are piling in on guillotines, meanwhile I’ve been snatching up shares in pitchfork and torch companies with strong fundamentals for pennies on the dollar.

          • Rhaedas@fedia.io
            6·
            2 months ago

            The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don’t need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

            • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Exactly, the guillotine is a durable/capital good. Yeah, you make more on one, but how many are you going to sell relative to torches and pitchforks?

              • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
                5·
                2 months ago

                My guillotines have DRM, non user serviceable parts and a mandatory service contract - cough - I mean you get free IoT and smartphone integration.

                If you sharpen it youself, warranty is void.

              • Rhaedas@fedia.io
                3·
                2 months ago

                In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It’s all about the price point. And the marketing.

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        That seems counterproductive.

        Guillotine demand goes up, guillotine production company stocks go up, guillotine production owners become rich, guillotine production millionaires felled by their own designs.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    40·
    2 months ago

    I stop working altogether.

    For real. That’s what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.

    But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    Or just don’t comply with it ?

    I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.

    • Flummoxed@lemmy.world
      121·
      2 months ago

      You think they’d be offering sick days?? I think you’re bound for the camps if you can’t keep up. Oh shit… This is starting to sound familiar…

  • Tazerface@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven’t heard anyone talking about 7 days.

    I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    195·
    2 months ago

    The longest I ever did it was 5 weeks straight working 12 hour nights too. Everyone thought I’d quit, but I ran circles around them.

    Everyone basically gets way less productive, especially with any physically strenuous activity. It’s like you/your body knows full recovery is not an option. You don’t get more done, you’re just there when shit hits the fan.

    I personally adjusted just fine. It is no different than slavery. All labor is technically wage slavery. I owned my own business before and after that job. Owning your own business is no different. The line between your life and your business is irrelevant when it is your own business, especially if you have employees.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Small acts of rebellion. Take extra long breaks. Automate parts of my job and then don’t tell anybody that I did it. Break some shit on purpose and act like it was an accident. Steal as much stuff that isn’t nailed down as possible. The list would go on, but I’d honestly have no idea what I would actually do in that situation.

    I’m certainly not giving it 100% at whatever job I’m working at. I would say form a union, but that’s hard to do when you are working for 56 hour workweeks plus commute, not including overtime. That’s assuming the 7 day workweek remains 8 hour shifts rather than moving down to something like 6 hour shifts with an unpaid lunch break.