Work Reform

So he calls essentially for a 25% raise across the board for everybody. In some fields this doesn't matter much. Office workers will probably achieve just as much or in some cases perhaps more in 32 hours than in 40 hours. Some other fields, perhaps less so.

If this would happen, it would directly lead to increased unemployment in some fields, and probably and increased inflation that might eat the benefit anyway in the end.

Still, even if I'm a bit skeptical, I'm all for lessening the hours we work, and all for spreading the productivity to more people and not just the top. I just think that the workers will need to take at least part of the hit to make this a realistic goal. Or perhaps robots and AI just need to take over all those jobs where number of hours correlate strongly to the amount of output.

Oh wahhhh, you can't have risky sex and abort babies now. So fucking sad for your plight.

What about people that work in education? This is not possible to attain if kids go to school for the amount of time they currently do. Teachers, paras, custodians, IT people etc have no choice in this unless kids have less time in the classroom as well. So unless all those people get paid more to keep doing 40 while the rest gets more life back you'll be hard pressed to find people that want to work education..like anyone wants to work education these days anyways.

I mean, cool, but nothing will happen because one old guy says this.

Yeah. We all want something for nothing. Fortunately, there are still enough adults in the U.S. who recognize that just doesn't work in the real world.