But someone please help me out 😅 it’s come up in my life enough, but never with much depth apparently. Everyone always seemed to assume we were all on the same page.
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Let’s say I am a rich boss running a factory. I make the employees work 7 days a week. One worker refuses and demands 2 days off. I fire him, no problems. One person is easy to replace.
However then all of my workers got together and agreed that they would all stop work until I let them have 2 days off each week. Crap, if they don’t work then I lose a lot of money. If I fire all of my staff I will have to replace them all at the same time with people who don’t know how to work the equipment and my factory will fail. So I agree to create the concept of a weekend and give everybody 2 days off each week, in exchange for them continuing to work.
What just happened is that these workers formed a union, threatened to strike, and I had to give in to their demands. The year is 1929 and the weekend was born.
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