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It's agonizing the boredom that sets in everyday in the early afternoon. The morning came and went, the latter half of the day will consist of work until the slow traffic filled commute home to ultimately cook, do a chore or two and try and fit in a hour to an hour and a half of downtime. But do you want to rest in that time, or use it for something you would have rather been doing during the day? Do you even have the energy by then? You lost motivation to do much of anything at all hours ago after all.
Five days a week this plays out, Friday showing the glimpse of light that is two days away from the monotony but the stress to make them count is ever present. Then Sunday afternoon looks towards the week ahead, the five days consisting of 40+ hours you are enslaved to serve others interests in order to live the little bit of freedom given after you "clock out" for the day.
How did we get here? It used to be worse they say, there wasn't the agreed to 5 day work week and 8 hour work day. It was unsustainable. Change was forced by the people. The power to do so sits with us to do so again but complacency has set in. We have become comfortable with the discomfort and when voiced reminded it could be worse and it had been. Logically this doesn't mean things can't be improved but we don't see it anymore.
When the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, you've got to throw your body on the gears and on the wheels the levers on the entire apparatus and you've got to make it stop. You have to indicate to the people who own it and the people who run it that unless you are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
This was the call to arms, the call to action. A voice to break those complacent at the time out of the stupor of what was perceived as unchangeable life. Today it is silenced before it can speak by greed and power.
Who will stand for a new revolution? For at minimum a 4 day work week and better treatment with vacation allowed and paternity leave. Better wages, healthcare as well for all. The 1% keeps getting stronger, why shouldn't we?