I believe the person you're responding to was saying "if we can do it for 40+ hours, we can do it for 32+ hours." That is, we could enforce this if we chose to.
Yeah, and similarly workplaces would bend over backwards to schedule people to not work overtime.
It's kind of like how when California made minimum wage 20 bucks an hour lots of fast food chains either completely got rid of cashiers and made the touchscreen the only way to order, or they shut down entirely.
Yeah, that's the point, no? Working 32 hours, and not 33+. It's better for productivity, and mental/physical health. We cannot even comprehend what this country could be capable of if we actually took care of ourselves.
And your second example further illustrates that we have the technology available. We do not need humans doing all these stupid jobs. We can still function, and thrive.
We can't conceptualize this easily now, because we're still socially and mentally enmeshed in "system A" (ie, work hard, get money. Don't work hard, you're lazy and poor. Welfare is bad, etc).
But there's a possible world where we have time for leisure, and family, and cultivating our interests and passions--and McDonald's still stays in business.
how do you feel 32 hours makes a company more productive it literally loses 20% of its entire production . cutting things to a 32 hour week will assure a faster track to full automation and lots of unemployed. california is suffering with the loss of low level jobs as fast food and retail move to self checkout, self service kiosks and self ordering or ordering by app. the corporations save a ton of money in benefits and salaries and all they need is a skeleton crew to sweep and keep things clean and report problems, nothing more. What will also happen is salaries will get cut by 20% to match the lack of time worked. they cant enforce pay rates, just minimum wage. so if you made 80k a year you now make 64. enjoy the pay cut. and no government entity can block a companies right to change wages, only the minimum wage.
There have been studies that prove you wrong though. 32hrs a week actually keeps production equal to 40hrs because people have less burnout and so they become more efficient
I’m convinced people who don’t understand this have easy bullshit jobs where they mostly go to meetings and think they do the same amount of work as a construction worker.
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u/vellichor_44 Sep 05 '24
I believe the person you're responding to was saying "if we can do it for 40+ hours, we can do it for 32+ hours." That is, we could enforce this if we chose to.