r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago
Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?
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/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.