From f9ef874dbb305ec5fae0d7d8459e168a731ed215ef899772e27390f91a668ca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Hyphenate adjectival compounds --- content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md') diff --git a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md index 6a4529c..fc9ddc7 100644 --- a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md +++ b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Again, I can't contest the fact that pointless work creates jobs people survive In a sane economic system, less jobs would be good news. It would mean there's less work to be done which would mean more leasure time for everybody. Only in today's backwards economy do people worry about not having enough work, even if that work is pointless. -It doesn't seem to add up that after rapid technological progress which automated much of the labor humans used to perform, here we still are with a forty hour work week. Predictions a hundred years ago said we'd have a fifteen hour work week. So what's preventing this? +It doesn't seem to add up that after rapid technological progress which automated much of the labor humans used to perform, here we still are with a forty-hour work week. Predictions a hundred years ago said we'd have a fifteen-hour work week. So what's preventing this? According to Graeber, the reason we're not working less is basically because the ruling class has figured out that a happy, productive population with free time goes against their interests. They want people financially enslaved so they don't have time to pose a threat. -- cgit v1.2.3