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Or maybe you can love your job, and your life?
I'm talking about less days and hours, not the same flexible hours.
The problem is work is a waste of time, if you believe life is about more than money.
Maybe they should wish on a star and get their perfect job?
It's not about people being unhappy, it's that peoples lives could be better. The economy should work for everyone, not just the richest. All should benefit similarly from growth, not only the rich. And maybe there's more to life than money.
Is there any reason to, in principle, oppose a 4 day work week?
People didn't always used to work 5 days a week. It used to be 6 or 7 days and perhaps 14 hours a day.
Progress has brought freedom, and why should that stop?
Why not pursue a 4 day work week?
The amount of days we work seems arbitrary.
Can you live your life on pay check or salary based on a 32 hour work week? If so, I don't see why a person doesn't work a 4 day week. I work a 3 day week...three 12 hour shifts. I have less free time and work harder than I ever did work a 5 day a week job. I lose so much time out of each week recovering from each shift. I am seriously considering looking for a 5 day a week job again. It definitely would be easier.
Well you can always choose to work less hours. No one is forcing you to work 40 unless you apply for a 40 hour a week job.
Are you wanting government to mandate a 32 hour a week workweek?
That's me. Work is an important part of my life, but I play a lot as well. I am fortunate to have a job that is challenging, and affords many opportunities for creativity.
My point is that jobs should pay a similar wage for 4 days work, for similar hours per day.
Why?
A job is offered for what the employer feels like it is worth. The employee then decides if he/she agrees and either accepts that offer or looks elsewhere.
Do you think the stores should sell their items for what you want to pay ... I mean, I only have $4000 so the car dealership should drop the price of this car to what I can pay instead of charging what they believe the car is worth? That is basically what you are asking for...the job should pay what I want to work.
And I'm saying that should change somewhat. Such a system is set up to give more power to the employer, and dis-empower the potential employee.
No one who isn't indoctrinated can think the current system doesn't give more power to the employer to take advantage of the employee.
Because it might be true?
You seem to be extremely negative of work itself. Men strongly attach their self worth to their work. Physically and mentally men are built for work. It's what we do.
Staying home all the time is boring. It's fine as a weekend treat, but it wears thin after a few weeks of being out of work. Man was made to work in some capacity.
Are you saying people wh hire you and pay you should not expect you to perform the job to at least a minimum standard to keep it? In my experience some people have a good work ethic and some dont and that is reality. Many people who i know, maintain a rigorous work schedule and still are able to acomplish and do many things outside of work. Probably because their personal motivation, involves both work and their personal life.I'm a male, and I agree with Paradoxum here, so what you're saying seems to be an overgeneralization. I'm definitely not "physically and mentally built for work". I consider work to be a necessary evil. Even when working on something I enjoy, I'd rather do it without the implied threat of bad things happening to me if I don't do well enough and lose my job.
But it's not either work or doing nothing at all. You can do all kinds of stuff.
Read books. Write a book. Play a sport. Volunteer. Learn a new language. Go traveling. Play an instrument, draw, sing. Learn programming and create a video game. Get yourself some Arduino and build electronic devices. Tinker with your car. Make friends. Spend time with family. And literally hundreds of other ways to spend time in a productive way.
There are just so many possible things to do. Work isn't life, it's something that gets in the way of life. So I think the best way for society to progress is to make sure that people have to spend as little time working as possible. I believe that technological advances in automation, as well as experimenting with new political ideas like basic income and a shorter work week, could be a way to achieve that.
Is there any reason to, in principle, oppose a 4 day work week?
People didn't always used to work 5 days a week. It used to be 6 or 7 days and perhaps 14 hours a day.
Progress has brought freedom, and why should that stop?
Why not pursue a 4 day work week?
The amount of days we work seems arbitrary.
I'm a male, and I agree with Paradoxum here, so what you're saying seems to be an overgeneralization. I'm definitely not "physically and mentally built for work". I consider work to be a necessary evil. Even when working on something I enjoy, I'd rather do it without the implied threat of bad things happening to me if I don't do well enough and lose my job.
But it's not either work or doing nothing at all. You can do all kinds of stuff.
Read books. Write a book. Play a sport. Volunteer. Learn a new language. Go traveling. Play an instrument, draw, sing. Learn programming and create a video game. Get yourself some Arduino and build electronic devices. Tinker with your car. Make friends. Spend time with family. And literally hundreds of other ways to spend time in a productive way.
There are just so many possible things to do. Work isn't life, it's something that gets in the way of life. So I think the best way for society to progress is to make sure that people have to spend as little time working as possible. I believe that technological advances in automation, as well as experimenting with new political ideas like basic income and a shorter work week, could be a way to achieve that.
Yeah - just try to live off of that.If someone doesn't want to work 40 hours a week there are lots of part time jobs out there.
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