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Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days. Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less. I totally agree with

• eli_gottlieb 9y ago
  >Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less. Well have we tried it?
  • bryanlarsen 9y ago
    Henry Ford did, to great success.
• marcosdumay 9y ago
  > it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less That looks likely. But it will reduce the concentration of wealth (probably, dramatically), so expect some opposition.
• randomdata 9y ago
  > Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days. I'm not sure either, but, at least as the story is told today, that was Ford's motivation for implementing the 8 hour workday at Ford. He allegedly surmised that if people were too busy working, they wouldn't have time to buy his products. It certainly seems plausible. If you spend all your time working, you really don't need to buy much other than the basic necessities, which doesn't help with a robust economy.