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  That's insane, I've never heard of an employer doing that. I'm glad you left that job, I wouldn't let them in my house if they showed up for an inspection like that. Like they couldn't tell you were working by the amount of actual work you did, so they bothered to send someone out to look at your home office? That's ridiculous.
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  Im never giving up my wrist-watches.
  I'll die before i surrender, Tim. >
  
  I own a dozen watches. Got an Apple Watch Series 4 and wore that one exclusively for like 4 years. In the last 3 months I’ve only been wearing it at night. 
  I am back to wearing my ~~nice~~ analog watches baby! 
  Edit: They aren’t even all nice in terms of cost or how fancy they are so I edited the last line. >
  
  Digital watches can be nice too. I'll never give up my G-Shock. >
  
  I have some 15$ aluminum digitals from AliExpress and I consider them nice >
  
  I have a $15 dollar Casio watch I got from Walmart that's older than my cats and I haven't had tk change the batteries or adjust time except for DST >
  
  DST? Is it by any chance the  Casio AE-1200 ? >
  
  Nope. Simpler than that >
  
  The ability to know what time it is in 1 second instead of 3 seconds is overrated. >
  
  laughs in old-fashioned analogue quartz watch I can take sneak peeks at the time during meetings. >
  
  I'm sitting in a meeting right now - just had to look to the corner of my screen to check the time.  
  But I have to admit, those old-fashioned watches do have their own kind of charm. >
  
  Oh shit, are normal watches considered old-fashioned watches?? I feel like I just aged 40 years… I didn’t even know that smart watches were considered watches before this comment. >
  
  Do you not call your smart phone “phone”? >
  
  I do, but I also call my smart watch a “phone”, because the things I do with it are much closer to what I do with a phone than with a watch >
  
  If your smart watch was sitting on a table and you needed it, you’d ask someone “Hey, could you pass me my phone?” instead of “Hey, could you pass me my watch?” ? >
  
  In the case that I really need to make I distinction, I would go back to calling it a “smart watch,” but in reality I would start by calling it “that thing”.
  At no point would I ever just refer to it as a watch, it feels like an entirely different device to me. >
  
  Yeah, but I could say the same thing about modern smart phones and what we had before smart phones.
  You can call people on smart phones, but otherwise they are entirely different devices than what phones used to be.
  You were a smart watch on your wrist and it displays the time, but otherwise is entirely different.
  In both cases, they were do both serve the primary practical purpose of the original device they are named after, plus do a ton of other stuff that is actually more important as far as what you use the device for. >
  
  Yeah, that’s the point… I was still calling them “cell phones” until like 2 years ago. I’m not trying to say that I’m right, I’m trying to say that I’m behind the times. >
  
  No sure if it fits the situation, but reminds me of this >
  
  /r/relevantxkcd >
  
  I'm guessing most peolle wearing wrist watches did not abandon them when cell phones arrived >
  
  Correct. We didn't.
  For the same reason people didn't abandon phones when smart watches came out; they were still useful.
  There's still people wearing wrist watches today >
  
  Color me shocked.  I mean there is only an entire industry selling watches lol.
  I wear them.  They serve as a form of jewelry really but are still very functional.  Much rather look at my watch for the time than have to fish my phone out of my pocket. >
  
  Couple hundred dollars to buy a smart watch every 2-5 years or $1000 to buy a watch that will last 100+ years? Seem like a worse investment to buy a smart watch, especially since some jewelry watches increase in value over time. >
  
  You're not wrong, but the increase in value argument made me laugh. A watch that increases in value costs $50K and you need to buy 10 $5K watches just for the privilege to buy one >
  
  My dad bought a $1600 Omega Seamaster in 1997, now it is worth about $2500-3100 by going off of auctions and listings for similar Seamasters in similar condition. You don't need a super-expensive watch but the difficulty is knowing if it will increase in value over time or not to outpace or retain its original cost. >
  
  If your dad had put that in an index fund it would be worth about $9K.... >
  
  Hey! Don't ruin his dream of becoming a mega-watch investing mogul >
  
  Portable quantum AI assistant (pocket version) confirmed for 2047. >
  
  As if it wouldn’t be an implant in our eyes for AR >
  
  There was never a normal timepiece for your eye (if there was, please send link, asking for a friend) and Google Glass failed, so... >
  
  If we are talking 2047 it’s all speculative but I imagine it being like the eye-phone from Futurama or something >
  
  The brilliant British historian of capitalism EP Thompson wrote an amazing essay about the history of clocks in England, which turns out to be integral to the history of capitalist labor discipline and teaching a nation of farmers to show up at the factory on time, work a specific amount of time that can be calculated exactly as a cost by the owner, and stop drinking by 10pm on Sunday nights so we won't miss work Monday. From the church clock tower to the factory whistle to the wristwatch, it's all about monetizing and commoditizing  the value of time, teaching us to internalize time as a real thing, making our bodies calibrate to clocks, and leaving behind quaint agrarian notions like working until you have enough and then taking it easy. It's in a volume of essays called "Customs in common." You'll never quite trust your timepieces again.
  For all of human history before the modern era, humans relied on the sun to tell them when things needed to be done. Now we get up in the freezing cold at 5am to commute two (unpaid!) hours to a job pushing numbers around on a screen to make a profit for someone else, and act as if things like "9AM sharp" and "eight hours" are naturally occurring phenomena, not human inventions. >
  
  We do? Man I get up in my house at like 8 and commute 15 (unpaid!) seconds downstairs to a job on my computer making a salary for me. If anybody is waking up in the freezing cold at 5 to commute 2 hours to a job on a computer, they need to move closer to their job, get a new job, work remote, and/or turn up the heat. That sounds miserable. >
  
  As someone who has worked 3 remote jobs and left all of them. Employers are rude, uncaring, and cruel. They don't care. One job did freaking inspections of my home every month to make sure the computer was there. Like....they are paranoid you are going to be a human being for 30 seconds while you are on the job instead of an unfeeling robot. >
  
  That's insane, I've never heard of an employer doing that. I'm glad you left that job, I wouldn't let them in my house if they showed up for an inspection like that. Like they couldn't tell you were working by the amount of actual work you did, so they bothered to send someone out to look at your home office? That's ridiculous. >
  
  Had a job that monitored my activity bubble in Skype. If the manager saw it go yellow and I wasn't scheduled for a break I would get a call IMMEDIATELY. 
  They really don't know what to do with remote work in regards to big corporations. >
  
  I work in a big corp in the professional services world. Global org. One of the big 4 in its industry. We are fully remote in my country - 3,000 plus staff here. Nobody ever checks in on us. Once our deadlines are met none of the bosses give a hoot. As it should be. Today I spent 4 hours playing red dead redemption as I have nothing to do this week. I was monitoring my emails all the time and would have jumped if needed. But if I'm not needed why the fuck am I expected to be sitting there. Talent (aka the workers) need to make it a priority when they move jobs that remote has to be either 100% or as close as possible for them or they won't join. Companies will learn sooner than later. >
  
  Heres to hoping. I've been burned too many times by big corps and their WFH programs. My most recent job had us 100% remote. And they have slowly made that number smaller. First it was 2 days a week. Then week on week off. And there are talks of making it 100% in office again. Their reasoning is always "Office culture" or "Making sure everyone meets each other!" "We just want to see your faces!!! Xoxoxo". The constant "Gaslight adjacent" reasoning that the worker is the problem and office workspace is "Amazing! No really! With a gun pointed to your head. " Has made me......jaded I suppose. I don't like being lied too. >
  
  Even better: In the late 90s, we invented something called the "Personal Digital Assistant". But it had severe limitations (not much memory or storage, small low-resolution screen, usually no mobile data connectivity, etc.), and for many people it was inconvenient to have another digital device to carry in addition to their cellphone. So it didn't really catch on, but the name "PDA" (Personal Digital Assistant) entered the lexicon and was associated with these devices.
  Then in the late 2000s, we invented a new device that combined the cellphone and the Personal Digital Assistant. It solved all of the problems of the original PDA: better memory and storage, mobile data connectivity, better screen, and most importantly, it replaced your phone instead of giving you another device to carry around. So of course, these devices caught on like wildfire.
  But because the name "Personal Digital Assistant", or "PDA", had already been associated with the old, slow, inconvenient devices, that name wasn't very exciting. So a new name was invented: the "Smartphone". Which is actually less descriptive of the true capabilities of these devices (the "phone" part is usually the least often used). "Personal Digital Assistant" would be a much better description. But we don't call it that, because we associate that name with old, outdated devices.
  Language is funny sometimes. >
  
  I’m sure amount of this is also due to the fact that smart phone or just phone is faster to say than pda >
  
  I guess it's a little more concise, but it's not that big of a difference. "Computer" has 3 syllables like "pda", but we don't really have any problem using that word in normal conversation.
  But who knows? That could certainly be a factor. >
  
  I feel like most people will say pc or laptop for the same reason though lol >
  
  You're acting like no one used wristwatches after smartphones, that's false. >
  
  I currently own 53 wristwatches, and wear one every day. >
  
  Okay Dr Strange >
  
  It's a lot easier to tell people I'd like a watch for Christmas, or my Birthday, or Anniversary, than it is to wrack my brain for a gift idea. Typically, if I want something throughout the year, I just buy it for myself. Watches are all different, all interesting in their own way, and really the only Jewelry a man can wear without looking like a rapper or an Armenian pimp >
  
  I’m in my 40s, my mother in her late 70s. 
  I recently got a smart wristwatch. Yesterday, I took a phone call from it. I looked at my mother with eyes as big as saucers and said. “I just took a call from my watch”. She just laughed. It seems like a simple concept today. But as a child, this was like spy gadget sh!t that we would watch on old black and white movies & tv shows. >
  
  Flava Flav had it right. Just put a wall clock around your neck and be fine with it. >
  
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea
  -douglas Adams' Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy >
  
  Did you know that the wristwatch was considered a women's product for a long time?  Men preferred the much more masculine pocket watch.  It didn't become fashionable for men to wear wristwatches until ~~male pilots~~ the military realized that it was less awkward and more convenient for ~~navigational references~~ battlefield purposes to wear a wristwatch. >
  
  Wristwatchs: From Battlefield to Fashion Accessory >
  
  Spectacles to contacts to smart glasses to... smart contacts? >
  
  My phone is now my watch, so I guess next thing'll be wristphone >
  
  Pocket watches were used by men of status who could afford one and were a bit of a status symbol. 
  The first world war rendered them obsolete and men regularly wore watches on their wrist. 
  The cell phone revolutionized communication and timekeeping as a standard part of a cell phone. 
  Smart devices connected to the internet will automatically tune into "atomic time" so that its as accurate as it can be. 
  Apple created smart devices and smart watches to be integrated with themselves as a premium price, becoming popular and trendy. 
  The smart watch is now used by people of status who could afford one and are a bit of a status symbol. 
  We've come full circle and it was never about horology. Time telling is secondary in terms of flexing. 
  I will be happy with my Seiko SKX007 because it's mechanical, doesn't require charging, will last a long time, is completely water resistant, and doesn't intrude on my daily tasks with useless information and notifications. 
  Watches are tools for every person. And as such every person has different needs and requirements for their tools. >
  
  I love mechanical watches and horology. It's amazing how we went from thick expensive pocket watches with a vertical escapement to thin pocket watches then wristwatches making it affordable for the average person with the basic design has been pretty much the same for 200 years. It's all very fascinating and interesting to me. >
  
  It's fascinating to me as well!
  I always look at my automatic seiko and think: wow there's no batteries, no circuitry, no chips and it's been acurrately telling me the time for weeks. 
  There's something romantic and lovely about mechanical watches. >
  
  
  There's something romantic and lovely about mechanical watches.
  
  Absolutely! >
  
  I mean technically our smartphones are another pocket watch if you briefly look at the time on it. >
  
  “Didn’t your ex-girlfriend pawn your watch for drug money?” “So what? I don’t need a phone and a watch” >
  
  Wait until you find out about Samsung's real smart pocket watch (gear S3 pocketwatch) >
  
  Wrist watches were for women early on. Only after introducing them to the Military (pilots) they became acceptable for men to use. >
  
  I wear an analogue watch too, it's solar. I don't care if i'm called old, come the zombie apocalypse, they'll be asking me what time it is >
  
  I used to use a pocket watch because I don’t like  the way jewelry feels. Now I use my phone. >
  
  I want pocket watches to come back, train conductors are cool >
  
  I love this!
  It’s also become more “professional” to look at the analogue version of both!
  Pull out a pocket watch to check the time: look at that professional person keeping on schedule like a train conductor!
  Pull out a cellphone to check the time: typical millennial! Always checking his phone when he should be working! >
  
  And I got a dumb mechanical wrist watch because I liked having a watch when I tried out an Apple watch-- but I didn't like having to remember to charge it for a couple hours every day >
  
  If we already have smart glasses, I want the big screen. Smart face shields!!! >
  
  I always hoped that real smart pocket watches would make an appearance >
  
  I don’t own a smart watch, but couldn’t you just take it off the band and attach a chain or lanyard? At that point it functions the same as your phone in your pocket, however I could see it being an option to carry while leaving your phone in the car while attending a wedding for example. I dunno, just a thought while sittin on the toilet perusing Reddit. >
  
  Soon we'll have eye ball watches with a transmitter in our pockets, and then eventually a wrist band transmitter. >
  
  Ah, so you're saying I should now make a smart cufflink watch if I want to cash in now? Sweet. >
  
  I have a G-shock watch that I bought second hand back in 2015, I think I payed $85 for it on ebay. Solar charged. Syncs with the USA atomic clock radio signal every night. Black bezel, display is white against black. I replaced the metal studs with stainless hex screws. 
  Then in 2018 I bought a Samsung Gear S3 Frontier smart watch. I really liked its features. It had an altimeter, barometer, and I could check the outside temperature at a glance. It tracked my heart rate and step count. I got a sick watch face for it that displayed all the info I wanted. Think it was called M87. 
  But I had to charge that thing every single day, and it lasted less than 2 years before the battery became unusable. Wouldn't hold a charge at all. I even replaced the battery, so it may have been the charging circuit that crapped out. But it was out of warranty. 
  Anyway, I'm back to my old G-shock, and I still love it. I do miss the extra features that the smart watch provided, but in the end it just wasn't worth it. I like to wear my watch and forget about it until I need it. Maybe I'll try another smart watch someday, but the battery will need to last significantly longer before I'll consider it. >
  
  round and round we go >
  
  I knew a number of people in the 90s who used their beeper to check the time. >
  
  Tech often works in cycles like that. 
  Cell phones were huge, then got smaller, now big again and trying to get smaller. 
  We used to send messages (telegraph) until we spoke over the phone, now we tend to send messages again over calling. >
  
  I can't tell if I'm so dumb that I don't know what you're talking about or if you're so dumb that you called a phone a smart pocket watch. If it's the latter, then do you consider the sun to be a solar powered watch too? >
  
  It’s almost like for every invention there will be new design iterations and we have to start small until we can improve the more advanced things /s >
  
  Personally I miss the sun dial.  Knowing the big text companies they would try to create a Smart Sun Dial.  Come on people, I don't need to access the internet or watch Nerflix using a sun dial.  ITS A SUN DIAL! >
  
  Nah, i have a pocket watch that was a tetragrammaton inside and i use it as a necklace. I'll always pick style first lol >
  
  Very rarely do I use my phone to check the time.  Maybe if it's laying on the table.  I use primarily my watch to tell time.  But I went from digital watch as a young kid, to analog watch as a teen/adult, back to a digital watch in my smartwatch. >
  
  You just wait right there, smart watches for eyeballs are on the way >
  
  Waiting on that quantum wrist watch that entangled with another one you buy for your spouse that way they know they are late and have no excuse >
  
  I can look down at my watch and see when the rain and storms will come in tomorrow. That’s the future! And I’m never going back >
  
  Next we’ll just skip straight to the point and install a clock on our pockets and then install a clock on our wrists >
  
  I mean we from wall clocks being in 1 place in a building to every surface being a clock. More people don't and didn't wear watches than people that do >
  
  We didn’t do anything other than buy what we were told to buy. >
  
  we've gone full circle with code41 mecascape and returned to pocket watch. >
  
  Next will be holographic pocket watch and holographic wrist watch >
  
  I only switched to a smart watch when I learned the Garmins didn't have to be charged every night.  My Fenix gives me notifications, GPS and workout tracking for my bike rides and still goes two weeks on a charge. >
  
  Holy shit. I just realized that when we check the time we look like the guys in the late 1800s. My small mind is blown. >
  
  This perfectly shows how everything is a cycle. We always swing back. >
  
  Im rolling with my regular casio watch. I got it last mont after long time of not wearing a watch and i can tell you. It is so peaceful knowing what time it is without looking at any notifications from my phone. It also has a stopwatch. >
  
  The arc of technological evolution bends towards freeing up these hands. >
  
  I'm still surprised that I haven't seen pocket smart watches yet >
  
  I love my analog wrist watch, but I’d give in to a Casio F91W smartwatch in a heartbeat, to be honest. I’m more in love with the form factor and design than I am with analog tech. >
  
  Here's a concept:  Before we all had cell phones, everyone's watches did not have perfect time.  It was acceptable to have your clock slightly off from a friend.  
  Cell Phones brought us all perfect time. >
  
  Modern devices also eliminated the need of the TV/movie trope of everyone synchronizing their watches. >
  
  And then I swam with my water proof smart wrist watch and it "overheated" (while still swimming). Entering a reboot loop until it never turned on again.
  And now I only have my smart pocket watch again... >
  
  Yes please and thank you. Thought it was dumb for the longest time. (I must be getting old) Finally got one and now I’m amazed! >
  
  Smart glasses watch was a dead end, so next is smart brain insert watch. >
  
  Wristwatches were for women. Men only started really using them in WW2 when they were not allowed pocket watches since they had to keep both hands on their weapon >
  
  There are a handful of jobs where you can't wear a watch for safety reasons, but other than that why not wear some kind of watch? If you're having to constantly fish your phone out of your pocket to tell the time, sooner or later you're going to drop it.
  Part of my job involves washing things in a tub of hot water while wearing gloves. I've gotten one of those fob watches that nurses use for this. It works very well. >
  
  Smart pocket watches were never really a thing (unless you mean old flip phones). I think this is a shame because I actually prefer the idea of a smart pocket watch to the wrist watch because the screen is much better protected. >
  
  Smarter pocket watches otherwise known as .. protogens ho boy the lore I’m ruining tn >
  
  Where's my smart pocket watch on a chain with a round face and stuff? >
  
  Where's my smart pocket watch on a chain with a round face and stuff? >
  
  Every “smart” thing is the “dumb” version of the “smart” thing that comes after it. >
  
  Adapt or perish.
  It was interesting to see watches fade from everyday use and then smartwatches appear. I personally don't have much need for either. It's just been fun seeing it all happen. >
  
  This.is.the best.shower thought. I laughed so hard I pooped on my smartpocketwatch! >
  
  Smart pocket watches? I have never heard someone call a cell phone a "watch" before. >
  
  Owning a smart watch has opened my eyes to wanting an analog watch. I had some in the past that were pretty cheap and never fit right. My wife surprised me with a very nice watch for our wedding anniversary. Yeah, she opened up a can of worms by doing that. I was always looking at watches when ever we went to the department stores. She got me another watch for Christmas, this one for formal occasions. I keep wanting to get more. Soon I’ll need a watch case. >
  
  Xkcd informed me I live in the perfect age of post-watch and pre-smartwatch. I will never wear a wrist mount. >
  
  Love it! Before that, we had clocks on the wall. Then before anything smart, we had TV's on the wall. >
  
  I want a old school looking smart pocketwatch, round screen, brass case, fob... >
  
  I feel like I'm being obtuse but what is a smart pocket watch? A smartphone? >
  
  Someone was using text to speech or voice memos in the shower again. >
  
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  Im never giving up my wrist-watches.
  I'll die before i surrender, Tim. >
  
  I own a dozen watches. Got an Apple Watch Series 4 and wore that one exclusively for like 4 years. In the last 3 months I’ve only been wearing it at night. 
  I am back to wearing my ~~nice~~ analog watches baby! 
  Edit: They aren’t even all nice in terms of cost or how fancy they are so I edited the last line. >
  
  Digital watches can be nice too. I'll never give up my G-Shock. >
  
  I have some 15$ aluminum digitals from AliExpress and I consider them nice >
  
  I have a $15 dollar Casio watch I got from Walmart that's older than my cats and I haven't had tk change the batteries or adjust time except for DST >
  
  DST? Is it by any chance the  Casio AE-1200 ? >
  
  Nope. Simpler than that >
  
  The ability to know what time it is in 1 second instead of 3 seconds is overrated. >
  
  laughs in old-fashioned analogue quartz watch I can take sneak peeks at the time during meetings. >
  
  I'm sitting in a meeting right now - just had to look to the corner of my screen to check the time.  
  But I have to admit, those old-fashioned watches do have their own kind of charm. >
  
  Oh shit, are normal watches considered old-fashioned watches?? I feel like I just aged 40 years… I didn’t even know that smart watches were considered watches before this comment. >
  
  Do you not call your smart phone “phone”? >
  
  I do, but I also call my smart watch a “phone”, because the things I do with it are much closer to what I do with a phone than with a watch >
  
  If your smart watch was sitting on a table and you needed it, you’d ask someone “Hey, could you pass me my phone?” instead of “Hey, could you pass me my watch?” ? >
  
  In the case that I really need to make I distinction, I would go back to calling it a “smart watch,” but in reality I would start by calling it “that thing”.
  At no point would I ever just refer to it as a watch, it feels like an entirely different device to me. >
  
  Yeah, but I could say the same thing about modern smart phones and what we had before smart phones.
  You can call people on smart phones, but otherwise they are entirely different devices than what phones used to be.
  You were a smart watch on your wrist and it displays the time, but otherwise is entirely different.
  In both cases, they were do both serve the primary practical purpose of the original device they are named after, plus do a ton of other stuff that is actually more important as far as what you use the device for. >
  
  Yeah, that’s the point… I was still calling them “cell phones” until like 2 years ago. I’m not trying to say that I’m right, I’m trying to say that I’m behind the times. >
  
  No sure if it fits the situation, but reminds me of this >
  
  /r/relevantxkcd >
  
  I'm guessing most peolle wearing wrist watches did not abandon them when cell phones arrived >
  
  Correct. We didn't.
  For the same reason people didn't abandon phones when smart watches came out; they were still useful.
  There's still people wearing wrist watches today >
  
  Color me shocked.  I mean there is only an entire industry selling watches lol.
  I wear them.  They serve as a form of jewelry really but are still very functional.  Much rather look at my watch for the time than have to fish my phone out of my pocket. >
  
  Couple hundred dollars to buy a smart watch every 2-5 years or $1000 to buy a watch that will last 100+ years? Seem like a worse investment to buy a smart watch, especially since some jewelry watches increase in value over time. >
  
  You're not wrong, but the increase in value argument made me laugh. A watch that increases in value costs $50K and you need to buy 10 $5K watches just for the privilege to buy one >
  
  My dad bought a $1600 Omega Seamaster in 1997, now it is worth about $2500-3100 by going off of auctions and listings for similar Seamasters in similar condition. You don't need a super-expensive watch but the difficulty is knowing if it will increase in value over time or not to outpace or retain its original cost. >
  
  If your dad had put that in an index fund it would be worth about $9K.... >
  
  Hey! Don't ruin his dream of becoming a mega-watch investing mogul >
  
  Portable quantum AI assistant (pocket version) confirmed for 2047. >
  
  As if it wouldn’t be an implant in our eyes for AR >
  
  There was never a normal timepiece for your eye (if there was, please send link, asking for a friend) and Google Glass failed, so... >
  
  If we are talking 2047 it’s all speculative but I imagine it being like the eye-phone from Futurama or something >
  
  The brilliant British historian of capitalism EP Thompson wrote an amazing essay about the history of clocks in England, which turns out to be integral to the history of capitalist labor discipline and teaching a nation of farmers to show up at the factory on time, work a specific amount of time that can be calculated exactly as a cost by the owner, and stop drinking by 10pm on Sunday nights so we won't miss work Monday. From the church clock tower to the factory whistle to the wristwatch, it's all about monetizing and commoditizing  the value of time, teaching us to internalize time as a real thing, making our bodies calibrate to clocks, and leaving behind quaint agrarian notions like working until you have enough and then taking it easy. It's in a volume of essays called "Customs in common." You'll never quite trust your timepieces again.
  For all of human history before the modern era, humans relied on the sun to tell them when things needed to be done. Now we get up in the freezing cold at 5am to commute two (unpaid!) hours to a job pushing numbers around on a screen to make a profit for someone else, and act as if things like "9AM sharp" and "eight hours" are naturally occurring phenomena, not human inventions. >
  
  We do? Man I get up in my house at like 8 and commute 15 (unpaid!) seconds downstairs to a job on my computer making a salary for me. If anybody is waking up in the freezing cold at 5 to commute 2 hours to a job on a computer, they need to move closer to their job, get a new job, work remote, and/or turn up the heat. That sounds miserable. >
  
  As someone who has worked 3 remote jobs and left all of them. Employers are rude, uncaring, and cruel. They don't care. One job did freaking inspections of my home every month to make sure the computer was there. Like....they are paranoid you are going to be a human being for 30 seconds while you are on the job instead of an unfeeling robot.