Jun 28, 2022 08:50 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 28, 2022 10:52 PM by C C.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...hours-week
KEYPOINTS: Notions of a 40-hour working week are based centuries-old working practices, rather than modern-day analyses of productivity and work stress. One modern study concluded that working eight hours a week is enough to maintain well-being and the feeling that one is contributing to society. The UK has started a trial of a 4-day workweek; workers get 100 percent of pay for 80 percent effort while promising 100 percent productivity... (MORE - details)
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In a world of soaring costs, shortages of food and goods and services, logistics collapse, catastrophes, pandemics, and a constant onslaught of things that daily need to be repaired, maintained, and built... This is a monumental testament to just how far off the rails and removed from experienced reality that the social (human) sciences have become. Yes, often considered unreliable bottom-feeders even many decades ago, compared to the physical sciences.
But in the span of a decade these disciplines have bloated even more so into one huge, festering elephant dung-pile of motivated reasoning and research. Serving in spiked-collar and dog-chain tethered bondage to the ideological fantasies of its Leftangelical dominatrix. A reciprocal dance transpiring between political-philosophy scholars and job-insecure scientists rewarded by administrators and publishers for catering to the former fellowship: "You feed our personal careers, and we'll crank out studies that support your intellectual gibberish."
KEYPOINTS: Notions of a 40-hour working week are based centuries-old working practices, rather than modern-day analyses of productivity and work stress. One modern study concluded that working eight hours a week is enough to maintain well-being and the feeling that one is contributing to society. The UK has started a trial of a 4-day workweek; workers get 100 percent of pay for 80 percent effort while promising 100 percent productivity... (MORE - details)
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In a world of soaring costs, shortages of food and goods and services, logistics collapse, catastrophes, pandemics, and a constant onslaught of things that daily need to be repaired, maintained, and built... This is a monumental testament to just how far off the rails and removed from experienced reality that the social (human) sciences have become. Yes, often considered unreliable bottom-feeders even many decades ago, compared to the physical sciences.
But in the span of a decade these disciplines have bloated even more so into one huge, festering elephant dung-pile of motivated reasoning and research. Serving in spiked-collar and dog-chain tethered bondage to the ideological fantasies of its Leftangelical dominatrix. A reciprocal dance transpiring between political-philosophy scholars and job-insecure scientists rewarded by administrators and publishers for catering to the former fellowship: "You feed our personal careers, and we'll crank out studies that support your intellectual gibberish."
