I think a lot about how by all rights society should be using a calendar designed a whole lot more recently than the Gregorian calendar but we're locked into it because it would decouple Christian holy days as a centerpiece of the weekhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1231721667904172034 …
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The French revolutionary calendar went to 10 day weeks.
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Yeah and that was garbage, it was transparently a decision to make people work more despite this supposedly being a working class revolution
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yeah but the Hebrew calendar is always going to exist one way or the other
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It's a lot harder to ask to get Shabbos off if Shabbos falls on a random day of the secular week every time
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I mean, even Japan uses our weekends and you aren't going to be tripping over Christians there
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Well, everyone does at this point, cultural imperialism
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