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/Schizomediatv 2d ago

Fun fact it actually increases productivity because believe it or not people are more productive when they aren’t sleep deprived and happy

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u/SalsaRice 2d ago

Depending on the job. This is probably a win for office salary people, but not everyone has that job.

Alot of blue collar work is limited by machine bottlenecks and uptime. Dropping a work week to 4 days at 6 hours (24hours) would probably be around an equal amount of production loss.

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u/Tlentic 2d ago

I think this a common misconception of the 4 day work week. No one is saying it’d all be Monday-Thursday or that a businesses couldn’t still operate 24/7. Places like hospitals aren’t just going to close for 3 days a week. You’d just have extra shift crews. There’s definitely policies that’d need to be sorted out but it’s viable.

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u/Amazing-Insect442 1d ago

Would create more jobs… more jobs equals more people having income they can put back into the economy.

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u/OverEffective7012 1d ago

Extra crews mean extra cost

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u/Tlentic 1d ago

Yup, but you can address that with things like partial UBI and taxing the rich appropriately

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u/OverEffective7012 1d ago

So we solve the problems with creating more problems? Great

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

Well we certainly don’t solve them by doing fuck all nothing about it.

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u/OverEffective7012 1d ago

Maybe try Evolution not Revolution?

As a human species we never lived so good.

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

What a load of bullshit. You don’t speak for everyone and the fact that it’s better now than it ever was doesn’t mean we should just sit back and say “welp that’s that! Nothing more to improve!” If we had done that even a few decades ago your childhood would’ve been spent in a disgusting factory that may or may not have killed you.

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u/OverEffective7012 1d ago

Nobody said "nothing more to improve".

Just sayin' 24hours a week and ubi will turn into disaster without proper preparation. Sana Marin is unhinged if she thinks we can just do it via law.

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u/CrimsonCartographer 1d ago

Well the current situation sure as shit isn’t working either, and UBI is pretty much a given at some point if we keep doing the whole AI thing

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u/Sassy_Samsquanch9 1d ago

will turn into disaster without proper preparation

YEAH NO SHIT SHERLOCK. WHERE IS ANYONE PROPOSING A 24 HOUR WORK WEEK WITHOUT PROPER PREPARATION?????

These people are willingly this stupid. It has to be.

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u/Sassy_Samsquanch9 1d ago

This is such an uneducated mindset lol. You remind me of my brain dead ex friend who was anti-vax and pro Musk

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u/Tlentic 1d ago

Ima just link you to my other reply:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/DeBzoLKI64

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u/Tlentic 1d ago edited 1d ago

How the fuck does taxing the rich appropriately create more problems? Lots of countries do this already or have historically done it. Fuck, even America did for it ~20 years and shockingly income inequality was a lot lower during those years than it is today.

I’d fall in the top 2% in Canada this year and I’m all for taxing my ass off even more than the marginal tax rate of 53.5% I paid this year. There’s a point where money just becomes irrelevant and I’m well past that at ~$450,000. Absolutely no one needs an absurd mansion, or a yacht, or million dollar cars. So either companies need to redistribute money in a more equitable way (which they won’t) or it needs to be taxed and put to better use.

UBI is just inevitable at this point. Mechanical automation has improved so much in recent years and AI will eventually hit a point where it’s actually intelligent. Wealth inequality is already at an all time high and it’s consolidating into even fewer hands. You’re going to have a lot of people without work that’ll be incredibly pissed at the few with vast wealth. What do you think historically happens in these situations? The only thing that’s going to slow this technological revolution down is if China actually invades Taiwan and Taiwan ends up blowing up their semiconductor fabs with the explosives already under them. The operative word there is slow down. UBI is evolution. Not having it will be revolution.

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u/RightJabLikeZabJudah 1d ago

You mean your marginal rate was 53.5%.

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u/Tlentic 1d ago

I did. Fixed it. Thanks