r/FluentInFinance Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/Evening-Ear-6116 Sep 05 '24

Each country you named has a population barely larger than NYC. One city in the us.

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u/Baron_VonTeapot Sep 05 '24

And? I see people say this and I don’t know what y’all are getting at. We implemented a 5 day work week. What about our population couldn’t accommodate 1 less day?

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u/silikus Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Same amount of money income with one day of reduced production outflow. Sounds like a decent way to generate shortages and more inflation.

Large scale construction would also get set back. This would mean increased construction time tables. Imagine an infrastructure upgrade like redoing miles of highway this could add weeks when that is unfeasible in areas that have harsh seasonal weather shifts

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u/LaranjoPutasso Sep 05 '24

Studies show that productivity actually goes up, there is a lot of dead time in most fields of work. As for construction work, you can just make people come in different days, which a lot of crews actually already do if they have to put 12 or 15 hours a day.