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Federal law in the US requires a half hour unpaid lunch break for full time employees. Why does this translate sometimes into a forced hour long unpaid lunch break? I eat in about 10 minutes and I'd like to spend more time with my family. Do employers just plan for chatty lazy assholes to need an hour for lunch, and make the rest of us pay for it?

Federal law in the US requires a half hour unpaid lunch break for full time employees. Why does this translate sometimes into a forced hour long unpaid lunch break? I eat in about 10 minutes and I'd like to spend more time with my family. Do employers just plan for chatty lazy assholes to need an hour for lunch, and make the rest of us pay for it?

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You won't get leisure time with more automation. The trend has been to automate more while forcing workers to work longer hours for less pay. This trend will continue unless stopped and don't think for a second labor unions are a solution.....

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No, I think encouraging entrepreneurship is the solution. But, yes, you sure as hell will get more leisure time with more automation. You just don't like what that means. What are you afraid of, a machine being more competent than you? No one is forcing anyone to work more hours for less pay. People are accepting that and, instead of just selling their homes and moving to a rural area, are continuing to keep themselves locked in to a situation where they hardly benefit.

You aren't a victim. The world isn't against you. You can become greater than your faults. Making your own money for yourself isn't a difficult thing to do and you pretending machines will replace you (it seems this is what you're doing) only makes you look incompetent. No machine can do what I do and I'm certain of that. Aren't you?