- Ahdok ( @ahdok@ttrpg.network ) 146•7 months ago
Aw man, imagine using technology to reduce the amount of time people had to spend working, rather than making rich people more money… what a crazy world.
- LibertyLizard ( @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ) 50•7 months ago
It’s wild some of the creative settings they come up with in fantasy!
- Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː) ( @Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net ) 17•7 months ago
Read a cool new guys book, the author is George Orwell, I think you’ll like him!
- limelight79 ( @limelight79@lemm.ee ) 17•7 months ago
It’s crazy. I’ve read in a few books (fiction, of course) that mention, in passing, that the 40 hour workweek was now replaced by a 32 hour workweek, or something similar.
When do we get to reap the benefits of all of these boosts to productivity?
- Ahdok ( @ahdok@ttrpg.network ) 16•7 months ago
“Worker productivity” has been going up for 50 years, but compensation hasn’t been. That extra money goes into the pockets of the board and shareholders and CEOs.
80 years ago, the average CEO pay was about 20x the lowest pay in his company. Now, instead, we have billionaires.
- toxicbubble420 ( @toxicbubble420@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months ago
on top of this, in the US, most workers have unpaid lunch breaks to some of us are stuck at work for 45 hour weeks, plus commute times are increasing over time so we’re practically spending 50+ hours a week committed to our job with the same pay from a decade ago
- Ahdok ( @ahdok@ttrpg.network ) 6•7 months ago
There were some fairly major studies in the UK last year, across many companies and multiple industries, where they reduced the 5 day workweek to a 4 day workweek, whilst keeping the compensation of workers the same overall (i.e. salaried workers got the same salary, hourly workers got 25% more per hour)
The majority of companies involved in the study found that their workers were significantly healthier and happier after adjusting to the new schedule… and as a result significantly more “productive”. Profits even went up despite the reduced working time. Most of them elected to keep with the new system once the study ended.
Obviously you can’t do this with every industry, certain industries need 24/7 coverage or the like… you can’t run an ER 4 days out of 7 - but the takeaway is that it’d be better to employ more people for less time and pay them well - you’ll get better results than you will with an exhausted and depressed workforce
- SrTobi ( @SrTobi@feddit.de ) 33•7 months ago
It’s actually quite fitting that the knight, part of the aristocraty, isn’t interested in Kapital
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 21•7 months ago
eh, knights were a tad more worldly and should at least realize that it’d be fucking brilliant to not starve when going to war, which has historically been a massive issue.
- Ultragramps ( @Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 29•7 months ago
The arts also tend to flourish with technological innovation making other tasks less time-consuming. More comics with this cool dragon could be made.
- Wirlocke ( @Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•7 months ago
This is amazing! Now we’ll be able to free humans from manual lab-
Cotton Gin gets invented
- Attaxalotl ( @Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network ) 1•7 months ago
I’m just gonna leave this here
- orphiebaby ( @orphiebaby@lemm.ee ) 10•7 months ago
Discovered this community and subscribed. Thanks ♥
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 7•7 months ago
Thank you for sharing this here and thank you so much for also linking the source! I love to see it!! Both the comic and the sourcing each made me smile and I appreciate ya! :)
- FiniteBanjo ( @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ) 4•7 months ago
I prefer hand cranked winnowing for my hobby grain processing, personally, I think the Dragon was making too big a leap straight to fully automated threshing.
EDIT: My dictionary apparently doesn’t think winnowing is a word ffs
- theodewere ( @theodewere@kbin.social ) 2•7 months ago
all hail the mighty Nerd Dragon… i want to see the one Steve Jobs slew to get the iphone… must have been a sleek, sexy dragon…
- Abnorc ( @Abnorc@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
You’re supposed to talk to philosophy dragon, not slay it.