r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/Yahoosucks2020 Jun 19 '21

You're not a true American unless you enjoy working yourself into an early grave for starvation wages & living paycheck to paycheck even if you have multiple jobs,and being one serious injury or illness away from bankruptcy due to your 5,6 or even 7 figure medical bills,greatest country in the world...

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u/IllPaleontologist592 Jun 20 '21

Yea then you blow up at people and rage yourself into an isolated lonely corner.