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> The more people who opt out of working, the harder everyone else must work to compensate. Historical counterpoint: Shorter hours like 40/week were introduced
by diffeomorphism 7y ago
> The more people who opt out of working, the harder everyone else must work to compensate.
Historical counterpoint: Shorter hours like 40/week were introduced to increase productivity.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
So it may very well be that the exact opposite of what you think is true and that you currently have to compensate for people working badly with long hours.
> In fact, giving people free income might increase the demands for goods and services as those people would have extra disposable income.
Thus far UBI tended to be about the same amount of income just from different sources.
- hinkley 7y agoI think some people imagine that people like me calling for 32 hour work weeks are part of some slippery slope to everyone working an hour a day. I trust the research that suggests that humans may only be built for ~30 hours of detail oriented work per week. That's also a nice number where I have time to work on other things, rather than just loafing about. If my boss offered me 30hrs/w plus insurance, I'd spend an extra 5+ hours a week working on my side projects and volunteer work.