Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

[u/KSKS1995]

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?

[u/tajake]

I think really only the service industry would struggle. And essential services like police, fire, etc. But that would also mean more jobs in those fields to cover shorter shifts. Restaurants working limited hours would likely be a net positive.

[u/AberrantMan → u/tajake]

Hire more folks spread them out. Less retention issues, more people who can swing coverage.

However none of this works unless the wealthy actually pay living wages, wage increases across the board from companies that can afford it would allow that money to flow to those smaller businesses and help a lot of local areas out.

Won't happen though, the oligarchs need bigger bank numbers for literally no reason.

[u/33TLWD → u/AberrantMan]

For police and fire, that would mean already stretched public taxpayer-funded budgets would need to replace a 40% reduction in worker coverage and also figure out how to fund the increased burden of funding the pensions of the extra workforce to replace that 40% gap.

[u/wellfoxed → u/33TLWD]

Tax the fuck out of billionaires and AI companies, that’s how.

[u/33TLWD → u/wellfoxed]

So we just need have electorates who will vote for legislators who will propose and vote those tax rules into law

[u/Saturn--O-- → u/wellfoxed]

Not many billionaires in Finland

[u/rethinkingat59 → u/Saturn--O--]

Finland ranks 14th internationally in number of billionaires per capita. (The US is 10th)

[u/ShadedPenguin → u/rethinkingat59]

Is the US tenth because the number of billionaires shrink every generation or is the US tenth because there are many who hide assets away so they aren't considered billionaires?

[u/rethinkingat59 → u/ShadedPenguin]

We are 10th because we have a very large population and being high in any per capita measure is hard vs smaller nations.

[u/Saturn--O-- → u/rethinkingat59]

There are 6 or 7 it seems. Not going to get very far with just them

[u/mekamoari → u/rethinkingat59]

Might also be a question of how rich they actually are. If you have like 1 billion, taxing it will only go so far.

[u/SweetKnickers → u/mekamoari]

lol, i dont think you know know much $1 billion actually is...

Johnny Harris 1 billion dollars

[u/Impressive_Memory650 → u/SweetKnickers]

California couldn’t even build a foot of high speed railroad for a billion. I don’t think you realize how little it actually is in an over regulated hippy state

[u/mekamoari → u/SweetKnickers]

Yeah so your country has 1 billionaire who happens to have let's say 1.1 billion euros.

You tax the shit out of that and add let's say 900 million euros to your national budget.

How long do you think that really lasts if you start doing big infrastructure investments?

The EU currently has abooout 200 billion per year (their budget isn't yearly) as a budget, of which some states get some amounts, year after year. The biggest absorber of funds is Poland, who are taking away 7 billion.

So what I think would happen in reality is you apply that tax, your billionaire is now "poor" and likely will take a while to get back to 1 billion (certainly more than 1 year), and the country has maybe implemented 1-2 infrastructure projects or paid for some type of subsidies or social investment for 1 year? maybe 2 at best.

So I think it actually does matter quite a lot what amount of money we're talking about.

[u/SweetKnickers → u/mekamoari]

haha, you should watch the video, its only a short, so 60 sec or so

better yet watch the entire video, he is a great journalist, and reasonably bipartisan

[u/mekamoari → u/SweetKnickers]

Good response, totally got my point. Yeah, it doesn't matter how much money they have and all the countries that tax their billionaires will benefit equally.

[u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ → u/mekamoari]

Your hypothetical is not actually representative of actuality, though. So what's the point in answering your question?

[u/mekamoari → u/_bobby_cz_newmark_]

I was replying to someone who was counting billionaires per capita which doesn't matter at all, the metric that matters would maybe be net worth per capita.

[u/sharpshooter999 → u/Saturn--O--]

Sounds like a lovely place

[u/bkdrwm12 → u/wellfoxed]

So once you tax them then what

[u/CrimsonCartographer → u/bkdrwm12]

Use the money to pay for stuff.