>>A proposal worth analyzing in some depth. I’m surprised at the mindlesss kneejerk reactions here. The 40 hour work week is a norm of fairly recent origin and not at all a universal norm, so why is it considered a sacrosanct minimum?
Because most Americans are trained from birth to think of the “productive work week” being 40 hours, with the “real producers” proudly working 60-80 hours and bragging about how they sold their very finite lives.
25 is a little drastic, but I think we should look at lowering the work week to 36 hours, with an option for 32 for people willing to take the pay cut. We’ve spent the last 40 years automating all of our industries and moving from paper to computers in every aspect of our lives. There is no excuse for working a work week designed almost 100 years ago.
Taxes are based on a 40 hour week - with median pay stats.
Think ‘they’ will adjust the taxes too?
Then there are those of us who work seven 12-14 hour days, take a couple days off, and do it all over again. The 100 hour work week isn’t a lot of fun, believe me.