Clock towers are way older than the industrial revolution and also occurred in quite a few different societies, so probably not as a general rule. There are a couple in England and France (Salisbury and Beauvais cathedrals) that are 700 years old, and if you include non-mechanical-clock timekeeping devices like sundials and water clocks then you can go back even further. I could imagine that it's quite possible that there was at least one instance where this was caught and people arranged for some kind of separate public clock, though

Control.

Cool youtube video describing capitalists controlling clocks to make laborers work for longer hours.

Shitty people having power over others under them, even the craziest things happened at that time, like rich people in victorian time paying to get to the poorest regions of london to experience poverty. All thanks to craptalism.

We just need to get people to link RTO mandates and jury nullification in the public consciousness, and the problem will sort itself out.

Like, it'll be weird that the whole staff was in the office and not a soul saw how the CEO drowned in the toilet, but who has time to investigate little quirk of office life?

goddamn that is brutal. If they were to work in 40-hour weeks instead, it would earn around half that much money which is around the wages of many east European or Balkan nations. But China is a glorious "socialist" nation otherwise.🙄

There are around 700,000 wild feral humans in the US fighting in a war to survive the element as hated prejudiced animals that would like this opportunity