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And god put the weekend on saturday

So, you can still thank god it’s friday

(Also Henry Ford, not the unions, made the 5 day work week)

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I also believe that he wanted to use the extra profits that Ford made to invest into better processes to make the cars cheaper and to increase the wages and conditions of the workers.

Then the share holders sued him saying that he had an obligation to give them their share of the profits and won…

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That’s why big corporations always become soulless. They’re forced by the shareholders

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So, you can still thank god it’s friday

But which god? Not the Christian one, because Friday is named after Freya, a Norse god. And Saturday was named after Saturn, a Roman god.

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In Hebrew the days are named after numbers (day 1-7)

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