Following a political conversation about 2 years ago, a very insightful left-wing commenter pointed out this: "One of the biggest failures of Europe's socialis

Following a political conversation about 2 years ago, a very insightful left-wing commenter pointed out this: "One of the biggest failures of Europe's socialism was the lack of any requirement to half the weekly working hours in 70s and 80s." I wish this idea was more widely discussed, but still the mainstream idea is that more working, produce more value as if 'free time' does not hold any value. It some scenarios is ridiculous. In Greece for example, the government trying to boost spending, opted for a law that allows commercial stores to open on Sunday. Before that it was illegal, you had to have a special permission to do that. Of course, the problem is NOT the working hours. The problem is that people don't have money. Apparently the government thins that Greeks are waiting for Sunday to go buy sugar, milk and cigarettes. Says a lot about the level of contact that our (Greek here) politicians have with reality.