When Stalin Killed the Weekend - A Happiness Lab/Cautionary Tales Crossover

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Time off work is vital for your happiness. So what would you do if you couldn't take the same rest day as your family and friends? Would you quit your job? What if it was the murderous dictator Stalin giving you the order?

The Soviet Union wanted its factories to run every day, so workers were stopped from taking the same day off - killing the weekend as we know it. In a crossover between The Happiness Lab and Cautionary Tales, Dr Laurie Santos and Tim Harford discuss the pros and cons of everyone downing tools together and why holidays matter so very much.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Hey it's Dr. Lori Santo's here.
0:14.0	The science says that giving a dollar away
0:16.0	can make you feel happier than spending on yourself.
0:18.0	And if you're in the mood to make every dollar you donate count
0:21.0	this holiday season,
0:22.0	the happiness lab has teamed up with
0:23.8	Give Directly.org. If we all pull together, we can make a huge difference to one
0:28.6	African village in 2024.
0:30.6	Caboebu I think is a great place of people want somewhere to support.
0:34.6	People there are living in really desperate situation.
0:38.4	They lack almost everything.
0:40.0	Rory Stewart from Give Directly.org says money from Happiness Lab listeners will go directly
0:45.0	to the people of Cabobo in Rwanda who will be left to decide on their own how to best spend
0:49.5	it to improve their lives.
0:51.4	Getting a little bit of cash is what will allow you to fix your house, buy a cow which could provide
0:56.1	milk for your family, get a relative who's ill to the local hospital, these things are
1:00.8	genuinely life transforming.
1:02.8	So if you can spare just a few bucks and want to join me and other fans of the show to help the folks in Cabobo,
1:08.4	then go to this website, give directly.org, slash happiness.
1:12.4	That's give directly.org. Org.
1:15.0	Just a few dollars can make a huge difference.
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