You know that the political process needs a lot of patience and time if you actually want to achieve something? This is not a “new development”. The bill itself was introduced in April, and designing it also took some time. He also had his hands full to fix the more egregious bullshit put into place like the 20 years block on increasing health and education expenses in a growing country and the laws that allowed the wholesale firing of many employees and rehiring them as freelancers without having to pay severance, or the freeze on minimum wage that lasted 6 years without any mechanism to take inflation into account. Reducing the work week is actually one of the last promises he gave during the last elections.
If the US had anything resembling a real democracy i would concur, but you don’t have that. The two-party system with first-past-the-post really fucks the US populations ability to get change enacted. Lula’s party does not have a 2/3 majority, it has to seek partners for the laws they want to enact, and that takes time.
If nothing else, Donald has demonstrated that change really takes no time at all. A president just has to give enough of a damn to do it. The motherfucker literally made his second inauguration a ritual in demonstrating a commitment to change. (Shitty changes, but still change.)
And yes, our system has been well-engineered from the start to make sure the entire governing apparatus favors the rich and powerful. I don’t think that is ever going to change.
You know that the political process needs a lot of patience and time if you actually want to achieve something? This is not a “new development”. The bill itself was introduced in April, and designing it also took some time. He also had his hands full to fix the more egregious bullshit put into place like the 20 years block on increasing health and education expenses in a growing country and the laws that allowed the wholesale firing of many employees and rehiring them as freelancers without having to pay severance, or the freeze on minimum wage that lasted 6 years without any mechanism to take inflation into account. Reducing the work week is actually one of the last promises he gave during the last elections.
Edit: more info here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/23/lulas-battle-for-a-40-hour-work-week/
Maybe that’s the case in Brazil, but here in the US, that is patently false.
If the US had anything resembling a real democracy i would concur, but you don’t have that. The two-party system with first-past-the-post really fucks the US populations ability to get change enacted. Lula’s party does not have a 2/3 majority, it has to seek partners for the laws they want to enact, and that takes time.
If nothing else, Donald has demonstrated that change really takes no time at all. A president just has to give enough of a damn to do it. The motherfucker literally made his second inauguration a ritual in demonstrating a commitment to change. (Shitty changes, but still change.)
And yes, our system has been well-engineered from the start to make sure the entire governing apparatus favors the rich and powerful. I don’t think that is ever going to change.