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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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Enh at this point we're just locked in period, changing the calendar would require massive institutional revisions of everything no one wants to pay for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Also it's not just Christianity, it's all three big Abrahamic faiths that use a seven day week to mark their holy day (Saturday for Jews, Friday for Muslims)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The French revolutionary calendar went to 10 day weeks.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @Nymphomachy
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Ten day week with a three day weekend is slightly less work and more vacation that 2 of seven
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Yeah but they didn't do that, back then the normal weekend was just one day (Sunday) and they kept it at just one day off per week while extending the week
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