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I get the point, but this is a bit self defeatist.
First of all, 1hr seems a bit excessive for showering and getting dressed, that's like 30 minutes tops for me, I could maybe see an hour if I'm going to a black tie event and I've been doing yardwork all day. If it takes an entire hour to get showered and dressed every single day, personal grooming and wardrobe is one of your hobbies.
Then that 1hr commute can be audiobooks, hobby podcasts, music discovery, etc. With public transportation, it can be physical books, chatting with friends, researching new things, or anything you can do from your phone. You can even knock out some of that mindless scrolling early.
Personally, my "mindless" scrolling is through platforms that I've curated for content relevant to my hobbies and interests. So it doesn't really stay mindless for long, it starts to hit those fulfilling notes. And most of the jobs I've had have had lulls in that 8hr block where I could not-so-mindlessly scroll here and there.
Also 1hr unpaid overtime every day? Um what? They specified wagie so not salaried, anon has a slam dunk labor rights case.
So we found 30min in the morning, those 2hrs of commute are usable, say another 30min of scrolling at work (probably higher, but I'm assuming a more demanding job to be conservative), and fuck off 1hr unpaid work. That's an extra 4hrs of potentially fulfilling time if you use it.
Like yeah, wagie life is draining, don't get me wrong. But you have the power to reclaim some of that.
I don't fully disagree but don't you kinda believe it's embarrassing that we have to micromanage our lives to "reclaim" scraps of fulfilling time. People shouldn't have to hack their days just to have time for joy, rest, or growth. Society's standards and workplaces should be designed so basic dignity and meaningful downtime are built in, not something we beg or gamify away.
Not really, no? Originally we had to micromanage our day to secure calories and shelter, and defend ourselves. I'm fine with trading that uncertainty for reliability.
Would I prefer fully automated luxury gay space communism? Obviously. But that sort of thing takes time. The current arrangement is pretty darn swanky on the evolutionary timescale. It was barely a century ago that we bargained down to 8 hours, 5 days a week.
I can yearn , and fight, for better while acknowledging that what I've got is about the best humans have had it. Too much inequality, obviously, but still most of my ancestors would be jealous.
Reliability is still a privilege for fewer and fewer imo. For many more it’s fragile, conditional, and easily stripped away by illness, layoffs, or a single bad landlord. The fact that conditions improved over a century ago doesn’t license complacency. Those gains were forced by people who refused to accept tiny, daily violences as normal. If you think we should stop pushing once life stops being medieval, ok maybe? Not really, no. Don’t pretend that’s moral clarity; it’s settling. Your ancestors may be jealous, but they'd also argue that you maybe lost the plot.