>>513267753 (OP)
>Only realizing this now
Kek.
Ever asked yourself why you have to work 8 hours when the bulk of your work boils down to much less time, and why the whole "having to look busy at work" shit popped up?
The original idea of 8 hours of work, fun and rest came to be during the times of old - and specifically from factory workers, because in such factories, working 8 hours did translate to a direct productivity increase - and as such a direct increase of wages that came from said productivity. (Which later changed with automation)
The problems began when workplaces that don't directly translate working hours to increase of productivity adopted the same system (shops, offices, etc). Employers back then but even moreso now have this idea in their head that they pay you for "8 hours of work", which they ab/use to propel the wageslave to perform menial, mindless tasks that benefit no one in particular and are also not in their work contract.
You could now reasonably ask "then why dont we switch back to a performance oriented wage system?". The first issue is that such system would require them to remodel most of the current working system - which would put whites into positions of power, since they are on average one of the productive races. The second problem is the illusion of choice. Even if they reconfigured the wage cage, the system has ways to abuse you as bad if not worse in a performance based system (just look at china or any industry with performance related bonuses. The sad truth is, they already rigged the system against you using the (at the time actually useful idea) that your ancestors asked for. A trick they are particularly fond of doing. The only method to get around this would be to invent a new system - and keep inventing them - before they could be co-opted, but to do so would require seizing power to do that in the first place.