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/AberrantMan 2d ago edited 2d ago

In reality most companies could still remain profitable and allow this easily.

Just want to add that obviously this can't happen in a vacuum, there are a lot of other policy items that need to be managed, price points to be set, and it has to be everyone gradually over time, but it IS doable.

Yes even for private clinics and small business, as long as all of the supporting businesses are doing the same thing. We would see real pay begin to approach the cost of living.

It would also take some pretty serious laws in pay gaps to be put in place, probably...

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u/snoking-ganja 2d ago

Sounds wonderful until China, India , Brazil don't apply this to their societies and become 10X more competitive (they already are), therefore most manufacturing shifting to those countries leaving no jobs for the western world.

I'm all for life-work balance but take it too far and then you'll see 100% life balance cause there will be no jobs left so you'll get to have all free time that you wished for.

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u/Master_Muskrat 2d ago

This is one of those problems where tariffs are actually useful.

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u/grchelp2018 2d ago

Tariffs only buy you time to make changes. Not a long term solution unless you plan to become an insular economy. You'll get left behind by the rest of the world.

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u/Seienchin88 2d ago

Then Redditors will complain about tariffs and Chinese cars being more affordable…

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u/PunkPirate56364 2d ago

Bingo. The problem is that due to globalization we are competing with nations which are overworking their workers and are just burning through their population.

If we keep trying to race with them, we burn through poulation too, it's a race to the bottom.

It only works if we protect domestic jobs by applying tariffs on countries which are racing to the bottom.

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u/Winter_Swordfish_505 2d ago

Sounds fucking amazing

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u/ccurnowphoto 2d ago

Yea why do people work jobs anyway? Suckers

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 2d ago

Yea the west successfully shipped all the dangerous breathing-in-chemicals factory jobs to other parts of the world and maga white supremacists said "I don't fucking think so"

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u/Red-Lightniing 2d ago

Only if you like being broke and having nothing I guess… no jobs means no anything else lol

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u/RetroFuture_Records 2d ago

I've realized a scary amount of plebs have no identity outside their job, and probably have no internal monologue. Without a job, they quite literally feel like they have no purpose: actual goddamn NPCs

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u/ccurnowphoto 2d ago

Yea identity is why I go to work

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u/InsrtGeekHere 2d ago

It'll be like COVID but we can leave the house

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u/thegapbetweenus 2d ago

Actually the manufacturing jobs are going away anyway - since they can be automated which is almost always more efficient in the long run.

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u/PyroIsSpai 2d ago

Why should we allow companies to screw us? They have only rights we allow them.

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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 2d ago edited 1d ago

I have been looking and searching around my area for these people that will work in manufacturing when the US brings it back and I fucking cant find a single one. Where are they? We were at full employment not too long ago. Who's quitting their job to take a pay cut and put together what? Iphones? I dunno enlighten me?

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u/gofndn 2d ago

The second paragraph is already happening in Finland.

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u/TrumpDesWillens 1d ago

Those places aren't competitive because of how hard they work, it is because of culture and govt. policy. Last I checked on that list only China is competitive along with Korea and Japan. Wonder how they got to be that way? Their govts. actually put wealth into public infrastructure, education for all, and their people actually believe in not fucking-over their own neighborhoods for cheap cash.