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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/index.php?title=Category:Problems&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Problems (page does not exist)">Category:Problems</a> A lot of people spend most of their lives working jobs they hate. Jobs that are physically &amp; mentally harmful to health.&lt;!-- {{talk |TODO: Add to this page: {{pbr}}~ Examples of jobs that harm the body and/or mind. Plus, how it&#039;s physically possible to do them without such harm, if bosses/economics were to allow. There are plenty of examples! {{pbr}}~ Statistics about how many hours people work (average / per capita) (notice that there isn&#039;t a lot o...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Problems]]<br /> A lot of people spend most of their lives working jobs they hate. Jobs that are physically &amp; mentally harmful to health.&lt;!--<br /> {{talk<br /> |TODO: Add to this page:<br /> {{pbr}}~ Examples of jobs that harm the body and/or mind. Plus, how it's physically possible to do them without such harm, if bosses/economics were to allow. There are plenty of examples!<br /> {{pbr}}~ Statistics about how many hours people work (average / per capita) (notice that there isn't a lot of difference between so-called &quot;capitalist&quot; and so-called &quot;communist&quot; countries)<br /> {{pbr}}~ {{light|[lower priority] Statistics about how many people hate their jobs (note: such studies are hard to conduct; results should maybe be taken with a grain of salt)}}<br /> }}<br /> * {{minor|On an ''individual'' level, this seems 'necessary' for survival - but on a ''collective'' level, it is not. Most of the work that society needs done, ''can'' be done without much suffering. There ''are'' good solutions, which would be perfectly viable if economics &amp; politics didn't get in the way. This page is a place for thinking beyond the status quo. {{talk|Maybe this paragraph should go elsewhere?}} }}--&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Solutions==<br /> * '''[[Lower the cost of living]]'''<br /> * '''[[Shorten the work week]]'''<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Basic labor]]<br /> * [[Job creator's fallacy]]<br /> * [[Work hours per capita by country]] (status quo)</div>

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