• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    The shift to the 40 hour work week came alongside 2 critical advancements: organized working classes taking inspiration from successful socialist revolution, and the expansion of imperialism abroad. Devastating working conditions were exported from the global north to the global south in a collective agreement to stop a risk of revolution.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, so all the laws securing that over the decades doesnt count as incrmental change? Maybe we have different interpretation of the definition of incremental change?

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        All of the little bits of change that have happened have been secondary to the actual evolution of capitalism. We cannot fix capitalism.