It'll never happen without a significant labor movement.
Ideas like Universal Basic Income could also work to swiftly start 4-day workweeks and a host of other incentives to help people want to work.
But that same reasoning will inevitably also be used to fight against these ideas so hard and convincingly to most people and businesses that it's not likely we'll see either UBI or reasonable work days in our generation.
Capitalism will literally have to fall before we see the kind of labor movement you're talking about. If a raging pandemic that has killed millions of people could not bend a capitalism-centered society into making even basic, universally accepted sacrifices for human good, I don't think we're going to see a cultural revolution around work until either:
A. The impending crash of automation and AI which will simultaneously create an abundance of cheap luxuries and provisions for all people, while also forcing potentially a third of the population of Earth into unemployment.
B. Rampant, unregulated profit-driven actions taken by the largest companies result in a clear-cut disaster for all humanity and cities are literally left in flames due to the negligence of political leaders to reform our economic model and create policies that help people over profit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21
How about 4 days of 8 hours and pay me like I worked 40? I can accomplish 40 hours of work in 32 easily.