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South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash (www.theguardian.com)

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They were fully prepared to turn the working populace into slave labor and then the government was shocked to see that descision was unpopular.

One thing that catches my eye about this article is that the Guardian specifies "young people" as the cause for the pushback, Gen Z and Millennials, as if everyone else would be perfectly fine working until they fucking die. Just more "Zoomers bad" rhetoric.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

they already work some of the longest hours in the developed world.

I think it's THE longest or it already was few years ago when i checked. Far ahead of Japan, which is usually cited as the worst.

Btw. Do you know who was the first in EU? Greeks. Yes, the people accused by all reddit and ghoul media of being "lazy".

[–] Navaryn@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago

i mean it's no surprise that under capitalism "hard work" does not pay off, ever. The reward for working more than expected will always be even more work