Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation.
Furbag@lemmy.world 10 hours agoYou know what work reform I’d love to see? One where pay is based on production. Not time.
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 10 hours 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 10 hours 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.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
I don’t have empathy because of a personality disorder or autism. Could be either, I don’t know.
Most people are incapable of living with their parents in the west, so they waste their income on rent and utilities.
We live with 4 adults in one home, so our costs are extremely low and our income is high.
If your parents couldn’t own a house in the 20th century, then that sucks for them. The west was booming.
Furbag@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I do live with my parents. We do own our own house. You make broad generalizations about why everybody else is less successful than you, but you clearly have no clue what life is actually like for people living in America, or what actually working for a living is like, rather than just inheriting 500k euros and having your money make your money for the rest of your life like a rich cunt. Must be nice to have a golden parachute you can rely on for the rest of your life, but most people don’t have that luxury and we want to make things better for everybody, not just the owner-class or the capital-class of folk who have long since pulled the ladder up behind them.
The staggering ignorance on display here is why nobody is taking you seriously, and don’t you dare blame it on mental health or autism. You don’t get to come out loud and proud as a person who lacks empathy and then blame it on external factors when you get called out for being a piece of shit.
Don’t bother with a reply, you’re a waste of oxygen. Blocked. ✋🚫