> Couldn't we collectively reduce our working hours, have more vacation time, and employ more people? Step 1 for that to ever be realistic is to sever the conn

> Couldn't we collectively reduce our working hours, have more vacation time, and employ more people? Step 1 for that to ever be realistic is to sever the connection between your employer and your health insurer. An additional complication is that employing two part-time employees means you needed to train and hope the knowledge actually transferred twice, but that is trivial in comparison to paying the benefits for two employees (IIRC, benefits are more of a fixed per-employee cost rather than something that pretends to be related to hours worked, like salary).