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		antisthenes on May 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day wor... What does the pandemic have to do with it? Working so much that you can't spend the money was absolutely a thing before the pandemic too.

t-writescode on May 31, 2024 [–]

The pandemic gave a large number of people a vision of what __could__ be rather than what is, and those that have tasted freedom and goodness don't want to be caged in the exact ways they have been caged before.

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