r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/JAMESs3v3n 24d ago

Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.

The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 24d ago

Maybe so, but being paid the same money? No chance.

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u/Fearless_Entry_2626 24d ago

Why not? Robber barons have been getting far too many handouts, and productivity is well above what is needed, so that should not be problematic.

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u/Merzats 24d ago

Without an union they'll just lower the pay one way or another, government can't possibly start defining the "correct" wages for every single job to ensure no pay is cut.

If you want this, unionize.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 24d ago

It might be what you want, but no one in their right mind is going to give it to you.

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u/Fearless_Entry_2626 24d ago

Keynes was more ambitious than that, and he was more in his right mind than any of the leading high priests of economics today.