there have been more than a few companies -- like Microsoft Japan -- that claim that going to a 4-day work week actually increased their total productivity -- a

there have been more than a few companies -- like Microsoft Japan -- that claim that going to a 4-day work week actually increased their total productivity -- assuming that is your primary objective. if you've ever worked a shorter work week, you've probably felt the productivity increase personally. the way i see it, unless/until the US massively destabilizes, presumably due to internal power struggles/rising right-wing authoritarianism/etc., US elites will remain global policymakers for the next 100 years -- assuming organized human life on earth still exists at that point. US military spending is a way to guarantee our tech (and military, and cultural, and diplomatic) supremacy -- that number goes up every year, even accounting for inflation. and the US is geographically golden -- another reason we need to control space -- it could make us vulnerable in a way we have not been before. but all that said, the US is turning into a developing nation in terms of income/wealth/opportunity inequality -- that could, in theory, slow growth and 'global competitiveness', but i'm not sure it really matters in the new global, financialized economy, with very few controls on capital flows -- i.e. the interests of American elites -- what we refer to as 'the national interest' -- are not the interests of the rest of us. right now, it is primarily black people in America that have been marginalized/discarded as unncessary/extraneous, but that policy is starting to gobble up other poor people like latinos and even some white people -- there's no reason that trend has to stop that i can see. that's why it's so necessary to strip black people, and Democratic-leaning voters generally, of the vote. but if you do a simple google news search for '4 day work week', you're likely to see a spate of articles dropping all sorts of facts and figures and research and trials and anecdotes -- they're generally positive articles: https://www.google.com/search?q=4-day+work+week&newwindow=1&rlz=1CAIGZW_enUS905US905&sxsrf=AOaemvK6eBNebM4o4oEFR6_35OCJQNEjPA:1642806790659&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV_sOZ_MP1AhWkk4kEHQ9eCKIQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1242&bih=595&dpr=1.1 https://www.google.com/search?q=4-day+work+week&newwindow=1&...