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Besides being coercive and wrong, this law is unenforceable when applied to work such as programming that can be done at home. If a 4-day workweek law were pass
by Bostonian 7y ago
Besides being coercive and wrong, this law is unenforceable when applied to work such as programming that can be done at home. If a 4-day workweek law were passed, it's likely that salaries would fall and that many people would do unpaid work on their day off.
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoI heard this argument for the 35h work week in France. 10 years later, it proved baseless.
- kmlx 7y agouh, not sure that using france as an example is smart as france has been a laggard in terms of economic performance for the past decade. this meant it being basically leapfrogged by a number of countries from across the world. end result? better quality of life, better infrastructure, etc etc outside of france than inside.
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoI live there. I've lived in many other countries as well. And I keep traveling. I experienced the total opposite of your comment. I've seen the road in the US. I've seen the health care in the UK. I've seen the internet in Spain. I've seen the cost of life in Switzerland. Heck, I've worked in Asia and Africa. There are not a lot of countries where life felt as good as in France: germany, sweden, etc. There are also not a lot of countries where people complain more than the French. It's a national sport.
- klarstrup 7y ago> There are also not a lot of countries where people complain more than the French. It's a national sport. Sounds like it's working
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoClearly you have not lived in France :D We complain about the US politics. We complain about the weather. We complain about how much we complain. I'm pretty sure the gov cancels your citizenship if you don't reach your weekly complain quota. It's a matter of national identity.
- goatinaboat 7y agoit proved baseless. Structurally high youth unemployment was the consequence. The French system is fantastic once you are over the hurdle of actually getting a permanent contract, but the barrier to entry is much higher than in comparable economies such as the UK. It just depends which segment of the population you are optimising for.
- klarstrup 7y agoBack in the old days the English really knew how to keep youth employment high
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoIt's more about the fact we can't fire anybody, so hiring is a scary game.
- kmlx 7y agoi can guarantee there will be a queue of countries and corporations lined up to undermine any major difference from the globalised standard.
- klarstrup 7y agoMakes you wonder how the globalised standard improved over the past century (it was the unions)
- Bostonian 7y agoI've been heavily downvoted for opposing a 4-day week -- on the forum of a firm that seeds start-ups. Do people think a 4-day week should apply to founders and employees of start-ups?