We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
And this is why you support your labour unions.
Haha, as if there was not a push for people to work more around the clock than ever.
More job areas would have cafeterias, and I think we would see a lot of 24 hour employees
Omg I actually had this same thought the other day and wrote it down.
I just thought about how cool it would be to not need to sleep. You could have a whole 8-or-so hours to do whatever you want. But then I realized that if we didn't need to sleep we would likely be required to work longer hours or be otherwise productive during those 8-or-so hours. It's crazy how arbitrary productivity really is.
Congratulations on having the world's most depressing shower thought.
Investment bankers would like a word (but they probably don't have time).
https://www.powernapcomic.com/ deals with a fictional world where a drug makes this corporate dystopia possible but a small percentage of people cannot take the drug making them effectively disabled from a normal worker perspective.
if aliens invaded and forced us to work for them they'd probably have better work culture than us
South Korea is closely looking at your thread probably trying to figure out if there’s another way 🥲
Healthcare workers and mental health workers already are doing 12 and 16 hour days.
On the other hand, it would feel pretty normal to us.
Perhaps even our time perception would be probably a bit different. As someone coming from world where bodies require about 8-9 hours of sleep, the perception of time is naturally affected (if not dictated) by having series of waking periods of about the same length every day.
If there was no such thing as sleep (which might be a bit different than just "not requiring sleep" as you suggest) then we'd just be conscious in one continuous chunk from birth to death. Given what problems our brains solve by sleep (learning, sorting memories / feelings), if the brains were to do these things continuously, the consciousness itself would probably be at least quite a bit different experience.
Life became so expensive so you cannot afford of not working.
I'm pretty sure they'd force us to work all 24 hours, because profits and "if you don't like it, leave. I can hire someone else"
In a future dystopia, required implants will make 16-18 hour days happen
We kinda do it already, I can't be the only one that has taken "power naps" in my office instead of going home to sleep when a crisis hits at work. Hell, after the first one I bought a sleeping bag for those times.
Honestly, why is that lucky? I don't see a difference.
Tell my brain that.
that happens already sometimes lol