The philosophers yearn for the mines

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having heard what some university instructors go through today (no idea what it was like back then) i don’t blame this guy for being like “i just want to shovel dirt for 8 hours and then be able to go home and actually enjoy my life ffs”

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This was a trust fund baby wanting to role play as a proletarian.

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Somehow I doubt that Soviet coal miners had 8 hour days …

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They did.

https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-working-hours/

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The post overwhelmingly uses sources from before the opening of Soviet records for examination by academics. Forced overtime without pay was extremely common. Mandatory 12 hour shifts were also common, and ‘voluntary’ overtime from workers whose piece-rate quotas were set so ridiculously low that they could not sustain themselves on the ‘mandatory’ work day was the norm for much of the pre-Khrushchev Soviet era.

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