Well, from a theoretical standpoint your employer “buys” both your work time AND the non work time in which you are supposed to rest and recover so you can work again the next day. But because we live in a hypercapitalist hellscape non work time is seen as lazyness and not as a requirement for productivity.

Yeah, us being hardstuck in the 1980s is apparently still being better than other countries returning to the 1930s…

I’ve recently rented an AirnBnB with 6 other People and at 21:26 the owner knocked and complained about noise. At that time we were playing cards and just enjoying each other’s company. The next day they wanted to kick us out because “partys” were not permitted. In no way other than drinking like 2 beers each we were having anything close to a party. I don’t know what they expected when they decided to offer a room for 8 Adults, but apparently they only welcome monks with a vow of silence.

Im not an economist, but that would probably just lead to massive global inflation which would probably either lead to trade wars or actual wars until some semblance of the status quo would be restored.

Sadly capitalism will always lead to exploitation.