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Keeping it simple for the argument, but this is going too far. In social work e.g you simply cant support it from a professional view. Dunno in which sector you can.

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Glad you called BS after the quote. Working fewer hours has come up many times and every time the ruling class shoots it down. The most recent example was the covid working at home trend. Let's face it, people worked less actual hours. And the bosses went nuts.

To work fewer hours we need to dump the bosses off our backs.

@tante Even without that (which would require some massive changes to global economic systems to implement), the UK four-day-week pilot showed that there is little or no productivity drop going to a four-day week.

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Listen here hippy, who's going to run and attend the "Growth and Profitability Forecast" meetings if no one is gonna work?

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But think of those poor Billionaires.

@tante The crucial question is how you define "needs". If we arbitrarily draw a line at, say, the living standard of an average European circa 1920, it's pretty obvious we could meet that standard globally with a fraction of our current labor input. Capitalism couldn't exist under those kinds of conditions. This is precisely why consumerism (advertising, marketing, etc.) was invented because only by continually inflating "needs" can capitalism justify everyone working all the time.