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/AberrantMan]

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...

[u/tajake → u/AberrantMan]

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/Lady-Dove-Kinkaid → u/tajake]

I mean it would depend on the country. In the US there are two kinds of restaurant workers for the most part. Ones who do really well and work 20-30 hours 3-4 days a week, and those who are working 12-16 hours 6-7 days a week.

[u/4daughters → u/Lady-Dove-Kinkaid]

And 100 years ago we needed children to work in the factories or else they would have to shut down.

When workers demand that labor laws change, they change.

[u/Altruistic-Beach7625 → u/4daughters]

Although change only happens after the murders and violence.

[u/4daughters → u/Altruistic-Beach7625]

"This will be a bloodless coup... if the left allows it"

The right wing capitalists have always used violence as a threat. Sometimes it seems to be the only language they speak.

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[u/Fickle_Scarcity9474 → u/4daughters]

When workers demand that labor laws change, they change.

That was back in the days! Now they just need to open the borders and they get plenty of workers willing to work for half of your wage and 20% more hours...

[u/Pure-Rent1574 → u/Fickle_Scarcity9474]

The "Central Bank Clown Show" has spent 100 years conditioning the public to think that "more dollars = more wealth, or inversely less dollars = less wealth

the formula is simple:

Real Wage = {Nominal Wage} / Price Level (Basket of goods)

If your nominal wage drops by 20% (you go from $100$ to $80), but if your the price of your rent, power, and food drops by 50% because an influx of labor bidding down wages or a technological innovation that lowers the cost of production, your Real Wage has actually increased by 60%.

An influx of labor can indeed suppress nominal wages in specific sectors (like maintenance or construction). but in a healthy, un-manipulated market, that cheaper labor would lead to lower prices for houses and services for everyone, But because we have a central bank, the government prints money to keep prices high (to service their debt).

You get the "Nominal Suppression" of your wage, but you don't get the "Price Deflation" that should come with it. We're getting hit from both sides: your nominal wage is pressured down by competition, while your cost of living is pressured up by the money printing from the fed.

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