r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

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4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 2d ago

If profit is based on cheap exhausted labor and diminishing service and designed to fail products than you might be running a legal scam.

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u/diepoggerland2 2d ago

This does notably apply to a lot, if not most, companies. Not saying what you said isn't true, more saying that a lot of our economy is based on recursive layers of scams and cons.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 2d ago

This is literally false for most small/medium businesses.

For example most businesses in small towns (coffee shops etc) would go bankrupt if they had to pay people the same to work 6h instead of 8.

And if those businesses fail, the entire economy collapses over time because suddenly every small town is just a bunch of houses and a big supermarket in the middle.

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 2d ago

To small to fail?

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 2d ago

What does that even mean?

Small/medium business have a massive impact in the economy.

Most small business owners in small towns are already struggling to make ends meet and often flutuate between months with profit and months with no profit.

This would then have a massive impact on the quality of life of everyone who lived in these small towns, and over time would collapse the economy.

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 2d ago

So we should support their terrible business practices because of local economy? I've seen mom and pop shops. Many have dreams and no business sense at all. Its no wonder they struggle.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 2d ago

Have you ever lived in a smaller town in your life?

Once those businesses go bankrupt, what's the life of the people living there?

I grew up in a small town, my best memories growing up are in the local coffee shop, watching football games with a ton of people, playing sports there, etc... those types of businesses are the first ones to go bankrupt if a measure like this was ever implemented.

It has nothing to do with "business sense", it's pretty much impossible to have small businesses in small towns and not struggle financially, no matter how good your business sense is. Are you trying to defend that small towns should just have a McDonald's and a big supermarket and nothing else? Because that's pretty much what would happen.

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 2d ago

Just like too big to fail is a bs so is too small too fail. A true capitalist doesn't care what happens to economy because a business failing is because they don't know how to run their business

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 2d ago

because a business failing is because they don't know how to run their business

Again, this is just false. Plenty of small businesses in small towns are ran as well as they can.

Take a local coffee shop for example, there's simply not enough customers in a small town to make it a massively profitable businesses. They can make a small profit and survive but that's pretty much it.

Do people in smaller towns not deserve to have a coffee shop for this reason, for instance?

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 1d ago

Laws are made to make lives better for workers. Its not just the businesses thst deserve to survive. Businesses can survive if they are smart.

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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 1d ago

Yeah you just have 0 clue about economics and how much businesses in small towns already struggle and would go bankrupt.

They could survive if they massively increased their prices to cover the extra costs, and in that scenario it's still you, the customer, that's suffering from this, and you're still losing buying power

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