  > There is no reason we aren’t working seven days a week beyond people fighting not to.

Religious edict - most prominently the Sabbath in Western civilization - have mandated a day of rest every seventh day for at least 3000 years.

▲ Cyph0n an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Did religious edict also eliminate child labor, give us more humane working hours, and establish labor laws? Or was that because of unions?

	▲	dotancohen 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Deuteronomy 24:14-15 says not to oppress a poor hired worker and requires his wages to be paid the same day, before sunset.
	▲	dotancohen 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No. I answered one incorrect statement. Why try to pile the world on a single statement.

▲ stuaxo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure but proper weekends are much much more recent.

But far away enough that we need to look at this again and get more time back to the workers.