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Yes, and all these things already require a lot of people to work on the weekend. Blood transfusions are delivered on weekends just fine. But that's no reason t

• eli 13y ago
  "People willing to pay for it" sounds like a reason
• rz2k 13y ago
  So people who work in retail stores open on the weekends work 56 hour weeks rather than 40 hour weeks? I feel really bad for the people working in the drugstore now! Just to be clear, the idea that weekly cyclicality in demand for labor, or any restriction on demand for labor hurts employee welfare makes little sense when the legislative efforts already focus on labor friendly restrictions on supply. In fact, one of the ways that unions served their members was by insisting that outmoded positions (eg. coal shoveler on a diesel-electric train) were still filled. In general, labor interests are served when employers need more work done, and the supply of labor is constrained through things like limits to how many hours can be worked in a stretch without a break and when overtime pay is required. (I say in general, because everyone is also a consumer, so efficiency and productivity gains are not a net loss, they're a net gain)
• jsolson 13y ago
  I can go into a store and buy it on Sunday. Why should delivery be any different?
  • kubiiii 13y ago
    It should not. The question might be why going into a store on sundays?
    • jsolson 13y ago
      Why not? Stores or more or less universally open, and I've got the day off.