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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
considering a 30 hour work week...
one result would be that everyone would have more time for creative thinking. another would be, anyone who wanted a job could have a job. existing salaries would remain the same and companies that could not meet the pay role with extra employees, would be subsidized by the government. now, everyone would be working. this would be a manditory 30 hour work week. no one could work a job more than 30 hours a week. it's like job sharing but there is no cut in pay. this would truely be a free market enterprise - because everyone would be employed. where would the money come from? the government just prints more, like it is a;ready doing to bail out banks and 'too big to fail' businesses. and you suddenly have more tax payers and consumers, which is a dynamic that circulates money back into the local economies, immediatly. i know this would really annoy the workaholics among us. but it may help them to discover other interesting and equally engrossing things to do with their time. what would happen if 'time off'' was valued as much as 'work time'? not just considered time to recover from work, but an opportunity to think creativly or learn something new or develope a theory - help make living better for humans and other forms of life on earth? what if the worth of an individual wasn't based on how much money they have accumulated?
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2 comments:
Great Tif
what a great idea
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