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...will we ever get to a point of normality and sanity where: 1. guy A who want to work just 30hrs a week can say that this is how much he wants to work and ge
by nnq 13y ago
...will we ever get to a point of normality and sanity where:
1. guy A who want to work just 30hrs a week can say that this is how much he wants to work and get paid a fair hourly rate (same as guy B if he's just as good)
2. guy B who wants to work 70+hrs a week can say that this is how much he wants to work and get the same fair hourly rate (same as guy A if he's just as good, a reasonable 25% more for hours worked about a certain threshold - let's say 40hrs per week mandated, to set an arbitrary bar and stimulate employment of more people over exploitation)
3. guy A and B can have a coffee together and both see each other as equal value guys but with different life priorities, both ok
4. employers will not favor type B guys over type A guys (if this happens, mandatory extra-payment for overtime or extra-taxation could sway things to an equilibrium).
...it all boils down to Bertrand Russel's idea: why not have two people working X hrs a day instead of one guy working 2X hrs a day, and at the same time let the guy who wants to work 2X do it but don't discriminate in his favor (http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html).
- capisce 13y agoOr better yet, pay for results, not hours - if only results were always easily measurable. If A and B have the same base productivity assuming they work the same amount of hours, B's productivity per hour might be less if he works 70+ hours and A works 30 hours. So it might not be fair that they're then still paid the same per hour.