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I stopped taking this article seriously when they cited a 37-hour work-week as an indicator that the state is "undermining the work ethic." After finishing the
by jdbernard 11y ago
I stopped taking this article seriously when they cited a 37-hour work-week as an indicator that the state is "undermining the work ethic." After finishing the article, it really sounds more like the author is prescribing their favourite solution for something that may not even be a problem. This is one third party talking to another third party about someone else's "problem". Basically gossip and just as useless.
- acdha 11y agoI particularly liked the way it just breezes over the better part of a trillion dollars in reserves. If they can't adjust to a crisis starting with that many advantages, working an extra few hours a week isn't even going to register.
- mtgx 11y agoAnd didn't Sweden just adopt a 6h work-day recently? (30 a week, so even fewer).
- raziel2701 11y agoI think it was some companies in Sweden that had done that, not the whole country.
- kryptiskt 11y agoSweden isn't adopting a 6-hr workday. That was some bogus news item that went viral. There are some small-scale experiments, but there is no prospect of it becoming law, or even common.
- parennoob 11y ago> I stopped taking this article seriously when they cited a 37-hour work-week as an indicator that the state is "undermining the work ethic. Yeah absolutely, wtf? Sounds like someone who is trying to apply Industrial Revolution-era economics to today's world and pissed that it isn't quite working out.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThey also complain about how much Norway spends on welfare, without explaining why this would be a bad thing. Okay, their neighbours spend less. So? Maybe their neighbours' welfare systems are inadequate.
- jpatokal 11y agoNorway's neighbors are Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, whose welfare systems are generally not characterized as "inadequate".