"What you mean only 69 hours? You bunch of lazy lima beans!"
And a CA Dem congressman proposed at 32 hour work week in the US.
A 69 Hour Work Week?
You have got to be kidding me!
There are people who would be fine with that, some such people even here in the states, but that’s asking an awful lot from people. Some would prefer spending the day as a well paid
Cog in the national machine. I raise a toast to such hard working folks. Ask Japan how Workaholic lifestyles can ruin a family or a marriage. Their new generation also wants more personal time.
Given their youths’ attitude, good luck to the ROK in recruiting future soldiers to defend itself from the Norks and Chicoms.
Also, good luck in hiring enough young factory workers to make artillery shells, to compensate for the quantities that USA and NATO cannot produce to keep up with Russia and China.
What isn’t quite clear in this excerpt is that this proposal was to allow a maximum of 69 hours per week of work, not to mandate a 69 hour work week.
I would tell them to stick a 69 hour work week right up their ### too.
“South Koreans worked an average of 1,915 hours in 2021 – that’s 199 hours more than the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development average...”
And us dumb Americans are stuck working 40hours/week or 2,080 hours a year.
Please check my math, but isn't that 75 hours?
You have a falling birth rate, so you want your young people, who are the ones who should be reproducing, working a number of hours a week that will make it unlikely that they will reproduce.
How do you think this will help?
"What you mean only 69 hours? You bunch of lazy lima beans!"
President Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx):"Fine, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by making their lunch hour, twenty minutes."