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AlienScience
People are kind of short sighted.
The 40 hour work week is outdated and antiquated. We all know that when workers work 40 hours a week, they don't really produce 40 hours of work. This is due to burnout and low motivation due to resenting having to be at work for so long. Technology is another reason that the 40 hour work week should go out the window. We are more productive per hour now than we were in the past.
Currently, employers are being scumbags by cutting hours to try to weasel out of their responsibility. There is one very quick fix for that, and I see it coming within 2-3 years. All the federal government has to do is redefine "full time" at 30-35 hours per week. Employers can afford to drop a 40 hour worker to 37 hours to weasel out of responsibility, but dropping someone to 30-35 hours would leave a gap in their work and would lose them profit.
You may even say, that it was all part of the plan.
You're right. It used to take 40 hours to provide for a family, now it takes 120.
Then you continue to spout your "it's the employers fault" crud?
edit: and I might add, you state the government will quantify then repair the situation. YOu are sick!
wutz4tom
Do they think we are that stupid??
Bluesma
I admit to some ambivalence on this topic. I am perhaps ignorant of some of the details of this program, and carry deeply ingrained american ethics concerning work.
These clash with my daily experience, in a culture with different values... in which people work a 35 hour work week, and get a minimum of 3 weeks paid vacation every year. (If I remember right, my early conditioning even gets in the way of my memory- I tend to not remember the vacation days I have coming to me because I feel I shouldn't take them).
What I struggle with is my observation that working less hours does seem to make me more productive, more happy generally, and more reliable in the long run!
The french work much less hours, and are extremely productive, which contradicts our american values.
Major cognitive dissonance going on here.
But, would most americans just spend that extra time trying to consume?edit on 29-9-2013 by Bluesma because: (no reason given)
AlienScience
People are kind of short sighted.
The 40 hour work week is outdated and antiquated. We all know that when workers work 40 hours a week, they don't really produce 40 hours of work. This is due to burnout and low motivation due to resenting having to be at work for so long. Technology is another reason that the 40 hour work week should go out the window. We are more productive per hour now than we were in the past.
Currently, employers are being scumbags by cutting hours to try to weasel out of their responsibility. There is one very quick fix for that, and I see it coming within 2-3 years. All the federal government has to do is redefine "full time" at 30-35 hours per week. Employers can afford to drop a 40 hour worker to 37 hours to weasel out of responsibility, but dropping someone to 30-35 hours would leave a gap in their work and would lose them profit.
You may even say, that it was all part of the plan.
TDawgRex
All good questions (and cool avatar BTW...Collie Dawgs are the coolest).
I think most Americans would just fritter away their money. We see it on a daily basis.
Soon they will have everybody addicted to Hope-ium and Nanny-juana.
Visitor2012
It's a psychological problem actually. The whole White House is filled with people who should be medicated and given rubber mittens.
“The government you elect is government you deserve.”
Thomas Jefferson
"People deserve the government they get, and they deserve to get it good and hard."
H.L. Mencken