Screw a 40 hour work week

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:55 pm

Ok, so I'm smack dab in the middle of exams this week and have therefore been doing way more reading than usual. Specifically, I've been reading a lot of ethnographies for a visual anthropology class I'm taking. On to my point.
The socially accepted norm of work hours in industrialized society is around 40 hours per week. Hunter gatherers however get all the food they need from working merely 20 hours a week. I think it's funny that most people would look at their way of life as being primitive and brutish even though it's more efficient than our own (at least in terms of subsistence).
So would you ever give up your 9-5 cubicle job to go pick nuts in
Africa?

Post by **Foo** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:56 pm

So what you're saying is people work for the single purpose of obtaining food?

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:02 pm

No. There's other work that needs to be done. The fact remains however that when all's said and done these people work around 20 hours a week.

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:04 pm

Stop being an ass, you know damn well that's not what he's saying.

I always thought something like that would be cool, and I think you're even then one that made me relize what I was saying a few months ago when I made a thread about college and all. But no, I would rather get up, go to school, go to work, go home sleep repeat until I die to be honest.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:05 pm

I see.

But without the need to pare things down to such a simple way of looking at things, you can easily work a 20 hour week in western society, and earn sufficient for a better quality of life than hunter-gatherers.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:07 pm

bork[e] wrote:Stop being an ass, you know damn well that's not what he's saying.

I disagree with the points he's implying and am putting my point across with literal retorts and by testing the assumptions made.

If you don't understand it, the suggested course of action is to fuck off, twat.

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:16 pm

Foo wrote:
bork[e] wrote:Stop being an ass, you know damn well that's not what he's saying.
I disagree with the points he's implying and am putting my point across with literal retorts and by testing the assumptions made.

If you don't understand it, the suggested course of action is to fuck off, twat.

Im afraid you are the one that doesn't understand...twat.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:24 pm

Christ bork, all you ever post is crap. Total crap.

Post by **redfella** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:28 pm

Say perhaps that you actually enjoyed your job, and wanted to work 40+ hours a week... then what?

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:32 pm

mik0rs wrote:Christ bork, all you ever post is crap. Total crap.

I'm sorry, I'll try and make your reading experience a little better ok.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:33 pm

You'll stop posting? I can see no other way.

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:34 pm

mik0rs wrote:You'll stop posting? I can see no other way.

Or you'll stop looking for something to bitch about, grow up and get over one person posting on a fucking forum.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:41 pm

bork[e] wrote:
mik0rs wrote:You'll stop posting? I can see no other way.

Or you'll stop looking for something to bitch about, grow up and get over one person posting on a fucking forum.

YOU MAY HAVE JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY.

Post by **bitWISE** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:12 pm

Part of me would love to just go take it easy doing fuckall. But the other part of me is a materialistic son of a bitch and that part is stronger.

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:34 pm

redfella wrote:Say perhaps that you actually enjoyed your job, and wanted to work 40+ hours a week... then what?

Then I would say good for you.

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:36 pm

bitWISE wrote:Part of me would love to just go take it easy doing fuckall. But the other part of me is a materialistic son of a bitch and that part is stronger.

I think that's what would make most people, including me, think twice about it. We're all so tied to the benefits of western civilization that we'd definately go into shock if everything was taken away from us. That's what makes me think twice about doing field work, I'm not sure if I could handle a tribal lifestyle for very long.
meh, we'll see what happens though. I have a few avenues to explore.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:51 pm

Fuck, at least you have all your own teeth and a minimum of disfiguring skin conditions.

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:58 pm

pfffft, teeth.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:32 pm

mik0rs wrote:Christ bork, all you ever post is crap. Total crap.

Post by **eepberries** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:08 pm

No thanks. I'd rather not live in a place where you die from the simplest of shit. I also enjoy being around people who at least know how to read.

Post by **Jackal** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:11 pm

eepberries wrote:No thanks. I'd rather not live in a place where you die from the simplest of shit. I also enjoy being around people who at least know how to read.

Why do you need to know how to read when there's no books?
Plus, I'd say people in society get killed far more often by "simple shit" than hunter/gatherer people.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:15 pm

I like my stuff. I'm not gonna move into the wild just to get out of working a bit.

Post by **Dr.Gibbs** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:21 pm

I'd work 80 hours a week doing what I love, so no, I wouldn't pick nuts.
Work only sucks if you've picked the wrong job.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:28 pm

lol...work is for chumps...

Post by **R00k** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:30 pm

Like your wife?