Relax-it`s the loony left.
Every time someone calls me a lefttard/loony leftie or sneers about socialism, I like to ask them what they’re doing this weekend. And tell them this: you didn’t invent the weekend.. you inherited it. And it wasn’t gifted by benevolent bosses or enlightened markets, it was won, inch by bloody inch, by organised workers, unions, reformers, and yes, the broad left.
For most of history, people worked six days a week. Long and brutal days too. Sunday off wasn’t “leisure”, it was church and collapse. During the Industrial Revolution, people worked until they were exhausted, maimed, or dead, children included. This was the free market in its natural habitat.
The weekend didn’t appear because capitalism suddenly grew a conscience, it appeared because people fought back, they organised and struck. They demanded shorter hours because human beings were breaking. Employers eventually conceded a Saturday half-day, not out of kindness, but because unrest and exhaustion were bad for profits and social stability.
The two-day weekend only really solidified in the early 20th century, after decades of pressure from labour movements. Even then, it was justified in cynical terms: rested workers are more productive, and people with free time spend money. Fine. We’ll take the deal.
So when someone spends Saturday morning in bed, Saturday afternoon watching football, and Sunday pretending Monday isn’t coming, then turns around and mocks woke libs, they are enjoying the proceeds of struggles they neither understand nor respect.
The weekend, the 40-hour week, sick pay, safety standards, paid holidays, child labour laws, all the boring things that quietly make life tolerable, none of these came from the right.. they came from people the right mocked, resisted, attacked, and still derides.
If you enjoy your days off, you are living inside a left-wing victory. You don’t have to like it, but you might want to stop insulting the people whose shoulders you’re standing on.
History has receipts, and they’re not signed by billionaires.
For most of history, people worked six days a week. Long and brutal days too. Sunday off wasn’t “leisure”, it was church and collapse. During the Industrial Revolution, people worked until they were exhausted, maimed, or dead, children included. This was the free market in its natural habitat.
The weekend didn’t appear because capitalism suddenly grew a conscience, it appeared because people fought back, they organised and struck. They demanded shorter hours because human beings were breaking. Employers eventually conceded a Saturday half-day, not out of kindness, but because unrest and exhaustion were bad for profits and social stability.
The two-day weekend only really solidified in the early 20th century, after decades of pressure from labour movements. Even then, it was justified in cynical terms: rested workers are more productive, and people with free time spend money. Fine. We’ll take the deal.
So when someone spends Saturday morning in bed, Saturday afternoon watching football, and Sunday pretending Monday isn’t coming, then turns around and mocks woke libs, they are enjoying the proceeds of struggles they neither understand nor respect.
The weekend, the 40-hour week, sick pay, safety standards, paid holidays, child labour laws, all the boring things that quietly make life tolerable, none of these came from the right.. they came from people the right mocked, resisted, attacked, and still derides.
If you enjoy your days off, you are living inside a left-wing victory. You don’t have to like it, but you might want to stop insulting the people whose shoulders you’re standing on.
History has receipts, and they’re not signed by billionaires.
