Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – an Interview with Aidan Harper of the 4 Day Week Campaign
11th July 2019
A lot of people are very excited about moving to a four-day work week.
Can’t say I see what the fuss is about.
11th July 2019
A lot of people are very excited about moving to a four-day work week.
Can’t say I see what the fuss is about.
July 11th, 2019 at 14:39
The internet has turned almost every business into a 24/7 operation.
People want to move to a 4 day work week.
I see a widening gap between business plans and personal desires. What fills that gap will probably not be paid workers.
July 11th, 2019 at 16:07
I see the future as more and more automation, as our technology advances toward shifting more and more work from requiring people to being performable by machines, both special purpose and generally capable. This will shrink the sphere where just having a human brain and minimal intelligence is a useful (i.e. marketable) thing. As both provision of goods and (lagging) provision of services become more automated, there will be less and less need for unskilled and semi-skilled labor. The available economic positions will reduce to (a) those who can fix the machines and (b) those who can design the machines; the machines will run themselves, so the classic working-class job will just go away.
So what do we do with the proletariat, those whose only capability in society is making babies? That’s the coming social problem that somehow has to be solved if various dystopian scenarios aren’t going to come crashing down upon us.
July 12th, 2019 at 18:54
Oh joy. Four days to get done what takes me 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Oh rapture. When that gets rolled out, I’ll get to work more than 12 hours per day instead of just 10. I can only assume that the people who propose these things have never held a job with inflexible deadlines.