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I love the idea of a 4 hour day, but it seems to be something that can only be obtained by going freelance, consulting etc.

I wonder if a company could offer a stable income at a decent rate, but for only 4 hour days or 4 day weeks, or have a mandatory 60 days vacation policy. I'd be curious if such an offer would draw the best people from the talent pool?

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Seems to me that working 40-50 hours a week for 10-15 years at high pay is a more reasonable situation. Then have a big enough nest egg to do what you like, a la mrmoneymustache.

Except life is now and cancer sucks. Also assumes you were able to achieve a high paying career and not some dead end job that only pays enough to keep you alive.

the problem is that it's never enough. One day you have kids and your expenses go way up, another day you buy a bigger house with a bigger mortgage, next thing you know 15 years is 40.

> ...can only be obtained by going freelance

Think bigger. How do you think we got our 40 hour workweek?

I propose working only for half a year. More inline with humanity roots.

This also will rise price of labor so rich clueless speculators won't have resources to waste other people lives on futile endeavours, will incentivise more automation, sharing(think OSS) and less burocracy without social disorder from people losing "jobs".

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