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The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week (More socialist agenda blow?)
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| 1/11/12
| Michael Coren
Posted on 01/12/2012 10:04:22 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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"To save the world?"...WTF?...By putting us all in poverty on a 2 and 1/2 day work week?....Where in hell do these idiots grow up?
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I refuse to read any further than the word “commodified”.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Still, it looks a lot better than my current 0 hour work week...
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:06:45 AM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1086 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: Personal Responsibility
I don’t think there was a single week in my working life that was less than 50 hours.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:09:45 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Gimme that old time fossil fuel.)
To: Personal Responsibility
I refuse to read any further than “To save the world”.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:11:11 AM PST
by
The Pack Knight
(Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
To: Personal Responsibility
I’m sure it will be said, The yellow brick road to “Save the World” was paved with the best intentions of idiots...
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Geez, I know this is neanderthal thinking, but I seem to recall a Bible verse where God dictates working six days a week.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:12:55 AM PST
by
Marathoner
("Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force." George Washington)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
“The challenges are great, none more so than figuring out how to make most of society be able to live on half of their current income. And no doubt, many will seize on this as socialism or worse.”
Gee. Ya THINK? And then it goes on to quote Keynes...*Rolleyes*
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:14:34 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Marathoner
“Geez, I know this is neanderthal thinking, but I seem to recall a Bible verse where God dictates working six days a week.”
Be careful about the bible, it is not pro-capitalism as we have it today.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:16:18 AM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Its more about resetting social and political norms. Yeah, down to zero work from government employees as the norm.
All government employees are economically non producers as it is now, this just will allow them to continue to get their government check but they won't have to show up for "work" anymore.
Ahh, the good life of a government job.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:18:05 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
To: AngelesCrestHighway
This strong, strapping young man is clearly EXHAUSTED and deserving of a nap in the sun after his GRUELING 21-hour workweek. *ROLLEYES*
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:18:05 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Source: the
New Economics Foundation.
NEF is a project of the New Economics Institute, funded by the E. F. Schumacher Society, which promotes the "Eco-Socialism" of its namesake.
It does not, however appear to be related (as far as I can see) to the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which was co-founded by George Soros and Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:18:28 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I find that people are not productive past 6 hours a day at most. A 24 hour work week has been productive with additional hours as needed. The vast majority of employees fill their 40 hour work week with things other than work just to say they were there. I actually had someone proclaim that even though someone had gotten all the expected work done for the week the employee “needed to get all their hours in.” We have been brainwashed into thinking 40 hours is a magical number.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:20:52 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I am all in favor of a 21 hour work week perhaps even 15 hours per week for most government employees, but especially legislators and their staffs.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Anyone putting in 40 hours or less in a week doesn’t make real money.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:21:45 AM PST
by
albie
To: Diana in Wisconsin
make most of society be able to live on half of their current income? Liberalism is a mental disorder for sure....
Cuckoo!...Cuckoo!...Cuckoo!
To: AngelesCrestHighway
“...a 2 and 1/2 day work week?....Where in hell do these idiots grow up?”
Greece.
To: AngelesCrestHighway
...if any should not work, neither shall he eat. Thes. 3v10
Sounds good to me.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:26:23 AM PST
by
logitech
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Okay, I broke down and did read the whole article, where I came across this gem:
The NEF argues we need to achieve truly happy lives, we need to challenge social norms and reset the industrial clock ticking in our heads. It sees the 21-hour week as integral to this for two reasons: it will redistribute paid work, offering the hope of a more equal society (right now too many are overworked, or underemployed).
On what does he base the assumption that the "underemployed" is even capable of doing the work of the "overworked"? Does he really think that an "underemployed" literature major can take work off the hands of an "overworked" neurosurgeon? Who is "commodifying" now?
The very idea that all work is the same and that you can essentially plug any work, with a little training, into any job is a relic of the very Industrial Age the author claims to be moving past. It was a key concept of that other relic of the Industrial Age, communism. We saw it in the Soviet Union, where the labor of doctors was valued the same as the labor of unskilled factory workers - with predictable results. The fact that this author seems to harbor the same assumption says a lot.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:29:15 AM PST
by
The Pack Knight
(Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
With the amount of time some people spend at their workplace posting on FR & on the Internet as a whole, I think they are proving a 40-hour work week is not a necessity for at least some of us.
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posted on
01/12/2012 10:30:32 AM PST
by
gdani
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