Finland’s Prime Minister Calls for Debate on 4-Day Work Week
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#2Thirty-Hour work week was on the political agenda in the US in the 1930s. It's about time.
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#3Thirty-Hour work week was on the political agenda in the US in the 1930s. It's about time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20086446
The IWW was campaigning for a 4-hour day and 4 days a week in the 30's as well.
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#4Let me just leave this here before the headline-readers start to scrutinize a "phantom decision".
- https://newsnowfinland.fi/politics/how-finlands-fake-four-da...
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#5Wish we had younger representation in government in the US like this
Re: Finland’s Prime Minister Calls for Debate on 4-Day Work Week
#6Misleading headline. In the article she did not "call for a debate" on it. She was asked about it and said it's not in the current plans
'“Until now, the trend has been toward shorter working hours as productivity has increased,” she told reporters in Harpsund, Sweden. “I believe that in the future, though not in the next few years, the development will be similar: improvements in productivity and technology should show up as improvements in the conditions for ordinary workers, including shorter working hours.”
The Finnish government isn’t currently working on a four-day week, she said.'
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#7What debate? How to redistribute wealth?
If you work less I have to pay you less. Or be able to find someone who will not work less. But that can't be allowed to happen because social welfare state.
So the debate is really about "do we agree to increase tax on enterprises and empower the state to redistribute even more wealth?"
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#8Wait, the fake news is now real news?
https://newsnowfinland.fi/politics/how-finlands-fake-four-da...
Re: Finland’s Prime Minister Calls for Debate on 4-Day Work Week
#9I feel it is sensible in multiple ways:
1) People should reap benefit of automation. 2) Less urge to generate bullshit work to fill in 40+ hours. 3) Could force employers to think of more equalized distribution of work. So a few more people can get a job and overworked people can get some leisure.