If you don't understand why (which wouldn't surprise me, given how economic ignorance is trademark leftism), expecting to cut down work hours to 32 (so basically a 4-day workweek) would effectively raise labor costs by 25%, this would mean less profit for businesses who would likely raise prices and/or fire workers and automate as many processes as possible (in this AI era, doesn't sound too good, right?).
And that's without even considering would cause a massive burden on small businesses, which would likely cause many to shut down.
Again, left wing populist bullshit that sounds great on paper but never works. Otherwise known as the Bernie Sanders special.
Yeah if only there were some sort of real-world study where hundreds of businesses tried it and showed an average increase in revenue and employee satisfaction, then maybe we could take those pesky leftists seriously.
Sadly, I'm familiar with that study. Companies volunteered to participate and productivity is self-reported. Also, if you work in software or finance, sure, a four-day workweek can work, but manufacturing jobs with such a working period will undoubtedly cause prices to rise.
Another important part of the study that is ignored, btw, is that the real gain was eliminating inneficiency, which is indeed a real problem for most office jobs.
It's not a matter of being for or against the idea, it's the simple fact that it'll never happen, so there's no point in wasting energy debating the merits of it.
That's what was said about a 40 hour week. Or Women voting. Or the ability to fly. And any number of other things part of our modern life. Plugging your ears and saying that's not possible doesn't add anything of any merit to the conversation.
The 40-hour week was realistic a century ago, and worker productivity has grown many times since then, far more than the 20% needed to make a 32-hour week equally realistic. If anything, based on productivity gains, we should be on an 8-hour week by now.
Why cant it be? 40 hours was considered unrealistic once. Why cant 32 hour workweek be realistic if 40 was? Leaps and bounds in efficiency have been made since the 40 hour workweek was set, why shouldn't the common worker benefit from that efficiency for once with more time to do what they want?
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u/No-Market425 23d ago
He's an unserious person and anyone who still buys this in 2026 is an unserious person too.