Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

ROMAN WEEKS VS USA CURRENT, AND FUTURE WEEKS AND WHY?

AFAIK: OPTIMUM CALENDAR:

13 * 4wk, 7day Months is pretty optimum in modernity.

5 * 6hr work days wit 1hr break, are maximum human productivity at current work rates (hard). Tohse of us who are elites will always work more – because we love to.

4 * 6hr work days, and three days off reconstructs the family unit. Even if both parents work. This should be possible with automation and exit of the underclasses.

End summer vacations for schools and universities, and increase vacations throughout the year for all.

WHY IS THIS MISLEADING?

because (a) indoctrination into the culture (which matters), (b) the necessity of ‘being open for business’ the maximum amount of hours, therefore seizing the maximum number of opportunities, is a competitive necessity unless not only the whole country does it (see Cyprus – which is an outlier) or the whole world does it (seven day weeks). Because ‘availability’ is in fact a competitive advantage.

So the problem remains one of competing with others externally for opportunity via availability, competing with others internally for access to opportunity, experience and information, so that ‘not being there’ is a disadvantage over those who ‘are there’ – and there is nothing that can stop it whatsoever – except legislatively and therefore universally leveling the playing field. So if you want it, that’s the answer.

So anyone’s job that is driven by opportunity (sales, executive), and private professionals who want to work will work whatever they want for as much as they want, and people who not opportunity but production oriented, such as managerial, administrative, clerical, craftsman, labor, and service will work regularly because frankly YOU ARE SUBSTITUTABLE. That’s why you will always make less income that NON-SUBSTITUTABLE pepole. And it’s why non-substitutable people make more money: because ten percent of the people do

ROMAN CALENDAR

The Romans did not recognize the week as a unit of time, so didn’t have weekends.

The Romans had months, which they divided up by specially named days: Kalends(1st), Nones(~5th/7th), and Ides(~13th/15th). The time of these was probably originally based on phases of the moon.

The Kalends was always the first day of the month.

The Nones were eight days before the Ides, on either the 5th or 7th of the month.

The Ides were thought to have originally coincided with the full moon, and fell on the 15th of months with 31 days, and otherwise on the 13th.

These were not treated as holidays; they were purely for identifying days in the month. Instead of saying, “It’s Monday,” the Romans would say, “It’s sixteen days before the Kalends of September.” They always counted backwards, and inclusively.

As for workdays vs holidays, the Romans celebrated many fixed holidays (feriae), as well as ones that were simply declared. Most were religious, at least in name, and were occasions when at least some people did not work.

In some cases, games were held, often funded by the wealthy, perhaps with the goal of getting votes.

There were nearly 180 of these held during a typical year, and though every worker did not take every one of these days off, there were many opportunities to have a day off here and there.

Roman work days: 365days – 180days = 185days = ~15 Days a Month work, ~15 days off. (this isn’t likely). It’s more likely 20-22, with every day for hand to mouth people, who didn’t run a farm.

Americans work ~21 days a month including holidays.

One thing to remember: there were no laws limiting how many hours or days an employee could work, what they must be paid, or how many days off they must have. People who were not slaves lived hand to mouth, and probably could not take a lot of days off for economic reasons.