Shorten the work week: Difference between revisions

Throughout this past century, there has been plenty of mechanization & automation{{x|and more recently, A.I. - but that's a whole other discussion}} - i.e.: increase the efficiency of a job - make it ''take less labor to do the same amount of work''.

But instead of people ''working less'', <!--businesses chose-->the {{t2|market|"market", as in, the "invisible hand of the economy", or basically just a lot of businesses doing what they do to maximize profits}} decided to just ''produce more''{{x|i.e. more goods and more services, per capita. The increased production counterbalances the increased efficiencies, so people on average don't work any less than before.}}.&nbsp; Of course, in moderation this can be a very good thing - but we've long reached a point where it's harming the environment, with diminishing returns on quality of life. In fact, quality of life could be a lot higher if people didn't need to work as much.

To have a world with a shorter work week, we need to be honest about what things we could produce less of.

* '''[[We can still have nice things, just not replace them so often]]'''.

** {{rb|Note: This applies to rich countries a lot more than poor countries.}}

* Also we must be honest about '''[[bullshit jobs|what work we don't actually need done]]'''.

Then, to put this into practice in real life, we would need radical economic changes (such as socialism). Let's start a [[/Economics|discussion of how that could work]].