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Shouldn't the goal be to work as little as possible? Infinite growth in a finite world just makes us all work harder than necessary, and instead of using productivity and efficiency gains to benefit people/workers, they just go to pad some company's stock price.

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>Shouldn't the goal be to work as little as possible?

It's my goal indeed, but not the goal of my country, the economy and the businesses in it who provide the jobs I work for and also lobby for the labor laws my EU country has.

Of course doing no work at all while getting paid loads would be the dream, but I wasn't talking about dreams, I was talking about reality. And the reality is way different than what you dream of.

How do we make less working days a reality for everyone, instead of just ~60 companies form the UK?

Too bad the "government goal of X% employment (whatever that is)" couldn't be met by tuning the workweek up and down instead of futzing with interest percentages.

So why haven't they done it? Seems like a good way to get votes. "If you vote for me you'll only work 4 days/week."

Labour tried in the UK and nobody voted for them lol

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