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There may be some who disgree with your view, but let's assume most people want the 'ultimate' goal of being 'liberated' from work in order to 'live more'. How
by rocgf 4y ago
There may be some who disgree with your view, but let's assume most people want the 'ultimate' goal of being 'liberated' from work in order to 'live more'.
However, that's a wildly simplistic view of things.
You can't just say this without realizing that there are severe drawbacks to this. We can't just all work 4h instead of 8h and expect to maintain our standards of living, all the benefits of our times, maintain scientific progress, maintain national security and many, many others.
The ultimate goal should maybe be productivity, and if 4h is better than 8h for whatever reason, then let's do that. But it's definitely not so simple.
- serverholic 4y ago> We can't just all work 4h instead of 8h and expect to maintain our standards of living Do you really think we are using our resources and technology efficiently? Because that’s the implication here. I think that’s frankly absurd.
- rocgf 4y agoAbsolutely not. Do you think we’d use resources more effectively by cutting our hours? Maybe the global maxima is not the standard 9-5 work day, that’s almost a given, but to claim that working dramatically less will yield better results is absurd.