artS The Revolution announced a new dawn – or living nightmare – in the work world, I found my thoughts more than Kellogg’s. Yes, the cereal company, and not because cereal is all I have time to eat between my many jobs.
Kellogg’s factory in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the early 20th century, the dream of a world with no work and even a few short years shining, to be drawn. In the 1930s, the “managed minimization of work” trying to take advantage of the extracted productivity made by automation to reach an influential WK Kellogg champion.
The perceived of Utopian possibilities, Kellogg has facilitated to lower his factory work from eight hours to six, and increased daily transitions from three to four. The 30-hour work week is widely acquired by US business leaders as a Smart and progressive strategies – Not only protection against the threat of unemployment caused by mechanization, but also spread benefits. The magazine magazine reported next year the “thought of the industry men speak … ‘shorter time for men and more time for machines’.”
In the 1932 US presidential elections, six hours of work day is the preferred solution to national unemployment, and times are expected to continue to decline in the country. “No one thinks it stops,” said the historian Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, the author of the six-hour Kelogg dream: The forgotten American dream. “For many, people are optimistic: the definition of improvement is higher salaries and shorter hours.”
And yet what we have written, not only in the US but all over the world – as you will undoubtedly know – no shorter days done on machines. By 1940, support for management of decreased work has all except evaporated, reflecting misters of government, labors and industrial – and a breakdown of each other’s commitment to vision.
Now the dream of “reduced work” is a long dead, forgotten. Oecd Data shows That the average time spent at leisure has been reduced since the 1980s, even in economics (such as UK) growing at that time. Official use of statistics used in time The fun is removable Even if 2020, especially for women, young people and those in lower income.
Time is the money, they say – but it seems so many of us feel emptying two. Lloyds Bank’s recent research found that the average British has 23 “Really Free“Hours a week (from a total of 168). And 86% of respondents said they need more.
But the Lloyds report has a broken rotation, declaring that “emerging technology” can be free for almost two hours a day in the next two years. It counts a wide net, teaches robots of vacuum cleans and closets of bad banking tools (and new advances in automation and AI, as capable of making hours in our day.
These shifts have already come. Many people in all work lines often use AI items such as Chatgpt – and for further involvement, outcome or sensitive tasks than you can imagine. Can achieve chatgpt in seconds jobs that can get someone to someone, often with a quick degree. But does storage time saved go to more free time or more work?
Microsoft Coffever Bill Gates predicts that AI will replace people “for most things” for a decade, progressing a week of week work (and five days weekends). And yet, now, even a four-day working week looks like a profit tube, let the many steps (such as Universal Basic Income) needed to absorb the shock to reduced mass.
Although we, workers, sleep in the future. From my reporting, as people use chatgpt not to work earlier, or even time, but to keep them in a look at endless workless.
One century ago, there was a collective desire and to use job management technology, attended to faith that entertainment was like freedom. It is considered that people make choices free of time spending the family, or their hobbies. But the vision was tested – and later collapsed – by emerging view of progress as additional money where to buy more things, and at work as “the center of life”. Kellogg workers eventually voted in 1983 to leave six hours of transition, moved to the threat of reduncies – and the promise of payment will rise. The time of time is widely seen as a fair trade for less entertainment. As the one who rejects the employee puts it: “Hogs wins work.”
I first learned this 2020 from a Article by hunnicutt. The reading of flagging in Kellogg’s up to six hours shift makes me feel the same sad paralysis that looks at a terrible film of a slower and painful death. “Nooo!” I want to shout. “It’s a trap!“
I’m afraid we’re on the same paths now. New technologies CAN Give us more free time, move the locus to life and meaning away from work, and even construction of society to relaxation and connection; they testament replaced There are many numbers with us in our jobs. We already know that hard growth limits exist, even if we fail to identify them. How we warm up the reformation will depend on our eyes and dares, and how much we have prepared to dream.
It is not enough to recognize possibilities, even if it is a start, as the hunnicutt. We need to believe in the merits of entertainment, and “no material growth – something other than money and more work, forever”. History shows that this “respected, respect, inspiring, alternative to history” is possible, even under capitalism. But if we don’t fight for our free time, we will only find many ways to waste it at work.
