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This weekly thread will focus on work and work culture.
This has been a back-burnered issue since COVID came and upended many workplace traditions worldwide, but I’d really like to hear about what you all think about it!
Some Starters (and don’t feel you have to speak on all or any of them if you don’t care to):
- What is the ideal work / life balance? Right now, the worldwide average is 5 days per week, 8-5 PM. Is this too much / too little / just right?
- With productivity skyrocketing and wages falling, what would you like to see to fix things?
- Would you accept less money and shorter hours?
- What would you feel minimum wage should do to adjust?
- Do you feel that the current resurgence of Unions is positive or negative?
I’m with you on “fuck all (forced) work”.
UBI would change the face of employment: you’d work only if you felt like it was something you wanted to do. Or you’d live frugally a while and try to learn things, or start your own business (knowing that if it fails you didn’t just kill your family) or …
Myself? I like working. But I don’t like working for pennies so the owner can make millions. I don’t like being threatened with starvation if I choose not to work 60±hour work weeks.