The day is dawning on a four-day work week:
A true four-day workweek entails full-timers clocking about 30 hours instead of 40. There are many reasons why this is appealing today: families are struggling to cover child care in the absence of daycares and schools; workplaces are trying to reduce the number of employees congregating in offices each day; and millions of people have lost their jobs.
A shorter work week could allow parents to cobble together child care, allow workplaces to stagger attendance and, theoretically, allow the available work to be divided among more people who need employment.
The most progressive shorter work week entails no salary reductions. This sounds crazy, but it rests on peer-reviewed research into shorter work weeks, which finds workers can be as productive in 30 hours as they are in 40, because they waste less time and are better-rested.
30 hours is for pikers. The !Kung work about 20.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @07:41PM (3 children)
Your !Kung link shows that hunters and gatherers don't have it so bad compared to us, except for periods of famine, possibly resulting in death.
I would say one of the MAIN drivers for adopting agriculture is because it RELIABLY supports a larger population. This means more fighters to kick the ass of and displace the hunter gatherers.
(Score: 1, Troll) by turgid on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:15PM (2 children)
Your !Kung link shows that hunters and gatherers don't have it so bad compared to us, except for periods of famine, possibly resulting in death.
They don't have it so bad as us except for famine and death?
I would say one of the MAIN drivers for adopting agriculture is because it RELIABLY supports a larger population. This means more fighters to kick the ass of and displace the hunter gatherers.
That's a very Alt-Wrong line of "reasoning" you have there. Dominic Cummings, is that you?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:45PM (1 child)
No, that's the historically accurate reasoning. He's not advocating for killing the remaining hunter-gatherers and taking their land,.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:13PM
You misunderstand the original post and my reply.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].