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Re: Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism

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Theoretically yes. Practically almost all people got highly manipulated into having no hobby's or interests in their free time. They will find no use for a 4 day week not will they see any advantages.

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of options." The data on 4 Day Week trials has been positive in almost all cases [1], across many countries, same with remote work. We should try it if we care, I just don't think we care at a system level. Like rapidly declining fertility rates, there is enough will to complain, no will to change anything (imho, based on observations and the data). Maybe things need to get wors…

Additional citation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203 ("HN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-w... ("CNN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")

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