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more is never enough in the capitalist system

• erinaceousjones 4y ago
  This makes the assumption that capitalism exists in a vacuum: It doesn't. Companies aren't *always* trying to simply optimise for financial growth at all times. They're made of humans, some of whom aren't necessarily megacapitalists.
• Octoth0rpe 4y ago
  but more is still, well, more. So, it's still a better deal for the company. Maybe we haven't found the optimal point, but it definitely doesn't appear to be 40hours (or at least, not 8 * 5).
• PM_me_your_math 4y ago
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  • socialismisok 4y ago
    This is objectively false. Did you mean to say under Stalinist systems?
• shkkmo 4y ago
  If you have two equivalent competing companies, both paying the same salaries to the same number of employees, and one company accomplishes more by asking their workers to 4 day weeks, then that company will be more successful and can put the other one out of business. Thus the key measure that this study would need to demonstrate would be not that the productivity/worker-hour ratio goes up but that also the productivity/worker-dollar goes up. If the latter is true, a lot of companies are going to take a close look at this because more is more.