Comments on: Five Days On, Two Days Off http://www.johnheronproject.com/wp/?p=756 Some things, which said, cannot be unsaid. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Becky http://www.johnheronproject.com/wp/?p=756#comment-7340 Becky Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:42:14 +0000 http://www.johnheronproject.com/wp/?p=756#comment-7340 How true! Except that, in many cases, it is no longer five days but seven. The entire capitalist system is based around persuading us that we need more stuff, and in order to fund it we need to work longer and longer hours (thus not having any time to appreciate it). Not only do we need to work longer and more anti-social hours, we need both partners to work in order to maintain this standard of living, so that priorities like family and friends are expected to come second to pointless work. Until employers come to realise that people come before money, or employees refuse to be treated like products, this will sadly not change.<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> How true! Except that, in many cases, it is no longer five days but seven. The entire capitalist system is based around persuading us that we need more stuff, and in order to fund it we need to work longer and longer hours (thus not having any time to appreciate it). Not only do we need to work longer and more anti-social hours, we need both partners to work in order to maintain this standard of living, so that priorities like family and friends are expected to come second to pointless work.

Until employers come to realise that people come before money, or employees refuse to be treated like products, this will sadly not change.

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