Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSitting at home on my toilet married with a child. So I feel equally qualified to say this as you.
Fuck capitalism and that exploitation. What, you used to have empathy and care and now you’re a selfish asshole? How is that good, it’s definitely not funny, it’s just sad.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Who said I ever had empathy? I use logic. If you’re going to try and convince me, I’d suggest trying to use logic as well. It’s fairly easy to convince people with logic. Using your emotions etc will only cause polarisation, echo chambers, …
If you want to work 32 hours, go work 32 hours. Nobody is stopping you.
I’ve worked 32 hours for a year. Has its benefits. Just less money. Now that my wife is working half time, I’m obviously going to work more.
You know what work reform I’d love to see? One where pay is based on production. Not time. So when I do twice what you do in the same amount of time, I bring home twice the money.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cool, you’re shitting on people getting more vacation time and better pay for … What reason again? Because you got married and had a kid?
Use logic to make that make sense to me. Also I’ll hit you with some logic right here, your own in fact.
Sweet, worker productivity has soared while ages stagnated. Paying people the same amount of money to do 32 hours of work vs 40 is a step making pay more aligned with production. Exactly what you want!
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I want the wage system abolished. Everyone should be a sub-contractor. Paid on what they provide. Not on how much time they are there.
My co-workers are people like here. They say “don’t have ambition” “we’re just work folk” “if you do double the work you only get paid the same amount anyways”.
The mentality my family doesn’t have. Somehow my family all end up being high earners.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah we get it you’re awesome and whatever. Maybe if your coworkers were compensated for their efforts instead of taken advantage of they’d feel different about putting more work in.
Hell that last complaint you listed from your coworkers is literally the same thing you’re complaining about.
You’re still part of the proletariat, stop shilling for the bourgeoisie.
toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Honestly all that needed to be said. Fucking utilitarians.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Empaths are pretty boring. Basically like toddlers throwing tantrums
toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Logically, the world would be a better place without you in it. Your resources could all go to your child and you could stop wasting them, and your wife can find someone who actually loves her and her child.
Why don’t you do what’s logically best for your child?
Furbag@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Funny, that’s what we want too. Production now is higher than ever before in the history of humanity, yet our wages and salaries have been stagnant for decades. If we are producing more than ever before, why do we need to work so many hours per week? We should either be fairly compensated for that productivity or we should not be required to produce more than we are fairly paid for, which should translate to either a drastic salary increase to match the increased demand for productivity or a drastic decrease in hours worked (without a reduction in pay, since you agree that pay should be based on production).
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If you lower your working hours to 32 hours per week then this would happen.
Foreign countries their labour will gain in desirability for capital.
Your area will still require the environment to keep you alive, so if you are simply surviving, then it would be a good choice for you.
Now, I live in Belgium. We have a median net worth of 250k euros per adult. We have a lot to lose. If we work less, we simply have less money.
The good thing to do, would be to earn more money. Not work less.
You know how much Indonesians work? Singaporeans? Chinese? They work more than us.
Belgians statistically work only a few hours a week. Do you think our high median net wealth came from nothing?
We work at our property after our hours.
My dad never hired anyone to do anything in the house. He did everything himself. We don’t have a gardener. We do all of it ourselves.
Belgians work part time for themselves.
The truth is that value does not come without labour. Can’t magically lay on the couch and expect value to arise.
Furbag@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’d take more money too. However, I think I’d be happier with more time off to do the things I enjoy and also the things I don’t really enjoy but have to get done anyway, like chores and housework, since those are also part of my day that gets eaten up by my job.
I wouldn’t expect a nepo baby like you to understand that though. You got everything in life handed to you, so it’s no big surprise you lack empathy for your fellow man.