100% agree with these. And it seems like decoupling healthcare and other benefits from full-time employment opens the door to your last point, a 4-day work week

100% agree with these. And it seems like decoupling healthcare and other benefits from full-time employment opens the door to your last point, a 4-day work week. Right now in almost full-time job, if you want to switch to 4 days a week you need to basically get a different job. You'll lose your benefits like healthcare, paid vacation, 401k matching, so even though you'd be working 80% as many hours your effective pay at the same hourly rate would be much less than 80% of what you made previously. The more that benefits are decoupled from work, the easier it would be view employment on a more sliding scale for many jobs - i.e here's the hourly rate, you can work 2 days a week or 5, it's up to you, but you'll still be a "full" employee in the sense that full-time workers are today. Obviously not all kinds of work lends itself to this flexibility. If you're trying to climb the ladder and get promoted quickly you'll probably still need to work a lot. But for a lot of jobs, for instance for IC software engineers, I don't see why this flexibility wouldn't work.