Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
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Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
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#2This caught my eye, but it turns out it's the same old "fixed pie" thinking: the current workers are taking up all the available "working hours", so they should cut back to give the unemployed an opportunity to get some. Ridiculous. Why not be more productive and actually just create more jobs. Just like wealth, the number of jobs available is not fixed.
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#3I would be much, much more interested in hearing of how any one of you hacked life such that you work a non-traditional schedule than reading how a group thinks the workweek should be established by fiat. (Most especially for a group which does not demonstrate that it has any experience with, ahem, working for a living.)
Horse's mouth, incidentally: http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/shorter-working-week-...
Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
#4This caught my eye, but it turns out it's the same old "fixed pie" thinking: the current workers are taking up all the available "working hours", so they should cut back to give the unemployed an opportunity to get some. Ridiculous. Why not be more productive and actually just create more jobs. Just like wealth, the number of jobs available is not fixed.
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Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
#5I would be much, much more interested in hearing of how any one of you hacked life such that you work a non-traditional schedule than reading how a group thinks the workweek should be established by fiat. (Most especially for a group which does not demonstrate that it has any experience with, ahem, working for a living.) Horse's mouth, incidentally: http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/shorter-working-week-...
I designed my life to work 3hrs59m / week, and spend the remaining 6 days starting an NGO that teaches Indian village children how to use the computer....if you live your life non-traditionally, you can live on a lot less work than 21 hours...
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#6I've seen some other reports from this group and they have about as much to do with economics as a fifteen year old's emo "poetry" blog has to do with high literature. Consider this publication where they troll the world with a claim that janitors are more valuable to the world on average than bankers, supported by nothing more than poorly thought out back-of-the-envelope calculations.
http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/hospital-cleaners-wor...
Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
#7This caught my eye, but it turns out it's the same old "fixed pie" thinking: the current workers are taking up all the available "working hours", so they should cut back to give the unemployed an opportunity to get some. Ridiculous. Why not be more productive and actually just create more jobs. Just like wealth, the number of jobs available is not fixed.
It caught my eye too and I thought it might have been a meaningful study. By the end of the article I thought it was an early april fools joke.
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#9This might actually be a reasonable idea, but I can't see something like this taking off with the current conditions. And more than that, I don't think the American philosophy is to work less, I think that's something a lot more likely to take off in Europe.
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#10"The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks."
Like starving?