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Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work? I know I would certainly not wil

by jiggy2011 13y ago

Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work? I know I would certainly not willingly give up half my hours and income and have to put all of my work in a state where someone else can take over every few days.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work? I think the taxman's bludgeon would be the weapon of choice here. >I know I would certainly not willingly give up half my hours and income and have to put all of my work in a state where someone else can take over every few days. What do you propose as an alternative? A worker-class and a loafer-class? Prisons? Eugenics? Population control isn't very warm and fuzzy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58&list=PL381A1925DC384937 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58&list=PL381A1925D...
- jiggy2011 13y ago
  Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? What about people who are not paid hourly, which would increase drastically unless you outlawed it. Then you have to define what counts as "work", does reading HN count towards your daily allowance since it is tangentially related to your work? What about reading documentation? Or is it only the hours you are typing code into an editor? All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions.
  - fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    >Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? Not me man, I have a job. I just said taxes because that seems like the favorite/most humane weapon of gov't with which to influence people. >All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions. Such is the case for doing nothing as well, I believe.

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Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work? I know I would certainly not wil

by jiggy2011 13y ago

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work? I think the taxman's bludgeon would be the weapon of choice here. >I know I would certainly not willingly give up half my hours and income and have to put all of my work in a state where someone else can take over every few days. What do you propose as an alternative? A worker-class and a loafer-class? Prisons? Eugenics? Population control isn't very warm and fuzzy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58&list=PL381A1925DC384937 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58&list=PL381A1925D...
- jiggy2011 13y ago
  Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? What about people who are not paid hourly, which would increase drastically unless you outlawed it. Then you have to define what counts as "work", does reading HN count towards your daily allowance since it is tangentially related to your work? What about reading documentation? Or is it only the hours you are typing code into an editor? All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions.
  - fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    >Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? Not me man, I have a job. I just said taxes because that seems like the favorite/most humane weapon of gov't with which to influence people. >All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions. Such is the case for doing nothing as well, I believe.