Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)
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#2Neat! Gray is the person who first pointed me towards anarchism (back in 1999, wow) as a political philosophy, after reading about his Sudbury Valley School and following a link to the Anarchist FAQ.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
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#3...or how about let's just create more jobs?
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#4...or how about let's just create more jobs?
I'm not sure your read the article...
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#5They're also under concerned about useless and wasteful jobs.
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#6I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1].
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#7I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/627711
Surveys indicate you’re in the minority. Most people don’t enjoy their job, or want to work less.
We’re long overdue to move past “maximizing employment” at an economic policy level (looking at you US Federal Reserve).
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#8I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/627711
There is probably a lot of selection bias there.
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#9I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/627711
Surveys indicate you’re in the minority. Most people don’t enjoy their job, or want to work less. We’re long overdue to move past “maximizing employment” at an economic policy level (looking at you US Federal Reserve).
The problem is how to incentivize companies to pay workers the same amount for less work. A lot of people, for example, the service industry, can't just work shorter shifts for the same pay. If your job is delivering a product then you can, and a lot of people do, work hard enough to deliver and then goof off for the remaining time.
Take a Starbucks employee: They get paid per hour worked, so if they want to work less, they need more money. Now Starbucks needs to pay more people more money to maintain the same hours. This circles back to the popular discussion of automation and UBI or whatever, where Starbucks now has robots and the employees don't exist anymore.
On another note, I'd rather work a job I don't enjoy than be unemployed, I've had periods of unemployment and they were pretty bad.
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#10Theoretically it's fine, why not. In practice, who would opt to coordinate twice as big group of people with halved worktime?