Remembering the 40-hour workweek

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ... which is of course gone.  Life sucks, because nobody has time for life anymore.  It's all drudgery.  Often it doesn't even pay enough to live on.

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Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That sounds sensible. Of course it does raise the question whether all the work can get done in that amount of time.

Re: Yes...

[silver_gull]

The solution to that seems simple enough too: if a shorter work week per employee doesn't get the same amount of work done, employ more people. In most cases there would have to be training involved, but my understanding is that a lot of people in the US are wasting* time and money on degrees they won't use anyway, just because it's what's done, and that there's a surplus of people who want to be employed. So it's possible a 24-hour workweek would solve two problems at once.

Of course, that would still depend on raising wages.

*I would not consider a degree the student wants for the sake of learning to be a waste, but as a stepping stone to a job it's often not effective.