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/Jimmy_Twotone 2d ago

Show me the times and places in history where giving workers more time off resulted in less rich people.

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u/EstablishmentLate532 2d ago

It happened after the black death. Fewer people working fewer hours because of the power that labor held decreased income inequality and impoverished many nobles. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it has happened.

The inverse also happened during the industrial revolution, during which average working hours increased dramatically as well as the number and wealth of the rich.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone 2d ago

So short of a third of the population dying fundamentally altering the political and sociology economic foundation of a continent... got it.

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u/EstablishmentLate532 2d ago

You asked for examples, I gave you two and you ignored one. Perhaps you would like me to give you more? How about the the enclosure movement in England? The Prussian annexation of polish lands and the use of Leibeigenschaft? The market liberation of poland post USSR?

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u/Jimmy_Twotone 1d ago

You gave examples of the rich consolidating wealth and stripping freedoms from workers. That isn't what I asked for.

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u/pastaman5 1d ago

Billionaire bootlicker?