The Calendar
5 2017-10-01 by contendedrhinoceros
I'm self employed. I work 5 days and take two days off. Just like everyone else. But why? There is no reason I couldn't do 10 days on and 4 days off. Twice a month. Yet any deviating from my current schedule causes problems for clients.
I believe this is due to the calendar. On the face of it, it is arbitrary. A tool we devised to measure time, based on no observable thing. Of course days are an obvious tool..but the problem of arbitrarity only arises after the measure of 'days'.
The calendar, in my opinion, is a work schedule or productivity chart, and always was. And I believe it is exploitable by whoever can control it's correlation to power; and has. I'd love to know how cultures who measure time differently experience it. How many other technologies in the same vain as the calendar have been "harnessed" and used against the masses? Institutional technologies, or at least long standing ones, more-so than the obvious (television, radio, social media, etc.)
29 comments
1 Absolutely-Not-CIA 2017-10-01
This was upvoted suspiciously fast
1 axolotl_peyotl 2017-10-01
Actually we happen to agree on this one 100%.
20 upvotes in 20 minutes, but only 77% upvoted (so more even more upvotes).
And, your comment hit -20 after just 12 minutes!!!
Now THAT is extremely unusual!!!
This was sitting at the top of the new queue for longer than usual (which may be a partial explanation for the high number of upvotes), but honestly seeing your comment at -20 after 12 minutes is extremely unusual.
Definitely keeping my eye on this...
1 Absolutely-Not-CIA 2017-10-01
The plot thickens....
1 HempCO719 2017-10-01
You're alive!
1 Absolutely-Not-CIA 2017-10-01
Not the same guy.
1 HempCO719 2017-10-01
Thats exactly what I would say too. You're secret is safe with me
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
Am I a suspect ? :')
1 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2017-10-01
Your equal amount of downvotes is equally suspicious.
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
Why can't discussions in this sub happen without it devolving into a paranoia fest.
1 mastigia 2017-10-01
Because we stare at this meta-behavior all the time, and this stinks.
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
What meta-behaviour?
1 mastigia 2017-10-01
Vote behavior specific to our sub.
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
Pmsl. Ive been sat with a joint and my puppy playing fallout 4. Forgot I even posted this until earlier. Are you suggesting I manipulated the votes? Because I have the knowledge that I 100 percent certainly didn't. So if you are under the assumption I did..I know you to be completely paranoid.
1 mastigia 2017-10-01
We are saying the vote behavior in this post are suspicious without any paranoia needed. This is obvious vote manipulation.
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
Why? It's an agenda less post
1 mastigia 2017-10-01
That's what was so weird about it.
1 contendedrhinoceros 2017-10-01
But wouldn't the logical conclusion be that it picked up a short burst of early interest?
1 mastigia 2017-10-01
We saw this happen with several posts. Same like 20 vote aberration. Then we started seeing reports on these posts where it was clear someone was fucking with us.
1 axolotl_peyotl 2017-10-01
no reason for the first comment to get downvoted to -20 in minutes even in this scenario.
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1 axolotl_peyotl 2017-10-01
And this thread keeps getting weirder!!
So yeah, I'm sorry to inform you that you've been shadowbanned by the reddit admins (my second find this morning!).
As a /r/conspiracy mod, I can only see your comment, approve it, and let you know that you've been shadowbanned.
I recommend contacting the admins ASAP. Good luck!
1 kanye5150 2017-10-01
Sounds like clients just don't want you bothering them on weekends to me.
1 Redditronicus 2017-10-01
Well, it would be challenging to coordinate business without some agreement as to what a "normal" schedule is. Still, it is interesting to wonder if a different calendar system would change culture in some non-obvious way.
1 NoYamShazam 2017-10-01
You could add Mondays, a day some in the service businesses take off.
1 Wild_man_mick_brown 2017-10-01
I've always thought it would make more sense to base the week on the moon phases - four weeks per moon cycle. Some weeks would be 7, some would be 8.
Combined with a linisolar calendar, of course.
1 AntiSocialBlogger 2017-10-01
There have been different calendars and different workweek lengths used throughout history. I think the Egyptian workweek was longer than the modern 5 day workweek, something about maximizing labor.
1 AntiSocialBlogger 2017-10-01
Also if you travel to a non Christian majority country the weekend is given much less importance than Christian countries.
1 Hypocrosee 2017-10-01
In the book of Enoch, a now removed though referenced elsewhere book predating most of the old testament, he warns of altering the calendar as it would cause confusion of the times and seasons, mostly concerning what days are for what, and that if it were changed it would be possible to be doing the wrong things on the wrong days, ie the Sabbath.
Take what you want from it, but the Gregorian calendar, while more accurate solarly from our perspective, is a lot different than the one he spells out.
His calendar had 364 days, and while it would throw off the seasons in a short amount of time if not adjusted by adding a week every 7 years, and double adjusted with adding 2 weeks every 28 years, it would be just as accurate as our own.
All info from the wiki
Doing it like that, perhaps it would solve the questions of whether we'd have a long or short winter or summer, or a late start to spring? I'm not good with these things, maybe someone else here could try to correlate the data?
1 Creflo 2017-10-01
It revolves around the Sabbath, which is either Saturday or Sunday for different people...so it's both. One day of sloth/sin and one of prayer/guilt.
Despite some folks' hangups about its origins, it's actually quite beneficial. If we work non stop without a day off, we get crazy. If we have too many days off without work, we get the other kind of crazy.
If I take a day of rest and the other guy doesn't, he gets ahead of me in the marketplace. So it's codified in law.
Yeah, it's a racket. But it works out for the better good imo.