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>Here's a novel concept Why do we have 7 day weeks?

Same reason we have 6 based arithmetic for time and circles. Standardizing on something is more important than what you standardize on in many cases.

I'm sure someone will stop by shortly to try and score a few cheap virtue points by claiming the French Republican Calendar was thriving before municipalities killed it at the behest of lobbyists for Big Nobility.

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Get over yourself. We have 7 days because the ancients attached the 7 classical planets to the days. Not rocket science.

Yes that's the origin of it but why stick with 7? 7 is a shitty prime number and makes slicing and dicing into fractions of weeks hard. It doesn't work perfectly with the lunar calendar either.

The point is that there is inherent value in having an adopted standard.

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