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The World’s Second-Richest Man Thinks You Should Work Only 3 Days a Week
Time ^ | 7-19-2014 | Sam Frizell

Posted on 07/19/2014 6:42:07 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

“With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life,” Slim said. “Having four days [off] would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.”

But there’s a catch: in exchange for working fewer days a week, we should work for more of our lives. Instead of retiring at 50 or 60, workers should work until the age of 70 or 75, the 74-year-old Slim said.

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To: Citizen Zed

Idle hands are the Devil’s playground.


21 posted on 07/19/2014 7:19:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: yldstrk

No, he put his wife to work, while he drew government checks for not working.


22 posted on 07/19/2014 7:25:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Does he think his household staff should work only three days a week?


23 posted on 07/19/2014 7:25:27 AM PDT by Tax-chick (La cruz y el dolor son amor. Amor es mandato de Dios.)
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To: yldstrk

Must add, his momma also supported him for thirty years till we stopped it after she became senile and died.

Funny story. We canceled her credit cards when she came into our care. At that same moment HE was trying to draw money out of an ATM machine 1000 miles away and it rejected the card. HE was not happy!


24 posted on 07/19/2014 7:29:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

hahaha


25 posted on 07/19/2014 7:37:03 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

your wife’s brother, yes?


26 posted on 07/19/2014 7:38:31 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

“3 days a week means you would have to find another job at 3 days a week, leaving you with one day a week to take it easy and have fun?”

I like your math...you’re right. People would be lost for the other 4 days without something to do.


27 posted on 07/19/2014 7:47:37 AM PDT by BobL
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To: saleman

Gov’t employees. They regularly retire in their 50s.


28 posted on 07/19/2014 7:49:21 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: yldstrk

Wife’s brother. Yes. Thankfully he is 1000 miles from here.


29 posted on 07/19/2014 8:24:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

He sounds pretty worthless


30 posted on 07/19/2014 8:26:06 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

With the Obama recession, taxes, and inflation, I don’t gave a choice. I’ll have to work until I’m 70 , or until my health gives out.


31 posted on 07/19/2014 8:33:09 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Citizen Zed
people should only work three days a week.

When people decrease the amount of time worked, there is a decrease in the supply of labor, which leads to decreased production, which leads to decrease supply, and higher prices, which leads to lower average real wage rates, which means lower standard of living for the average worker.

32 posted on 07/19/2014 8:36:28 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Citizen Zed
He just doesn't want to have to pay for anybody's health care, which he shouldn't have to anyway.

The government cancer has metastasized. It must be removed soon, or the host will die.

33 posted on 07/19/2014 8:37:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Citizen Zed

Carlos Slim made his fortune thru bribing politicians.


34 posted on 07/19/2014 11:03:30 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: yldstrk

HEY! I spend at least 20 minutes on actual work each day. Others I know goof off....


35 posted on 07/19/2014 11:05:08 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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