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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don‘t see how smaller shifts at the same pay wouldn‘t work in virtually every industry. What‘s so different about a butcher, carpenter or taxi driver compared to a store clerk who works half time already? In terms of organizing I mean. There isn‘t a professional that isn‘t affected by ever developing automation processes. At least indirectly, but only the rich get to reap it‘s benefits for as long as I live. It‘s time to change that and a universal 30 hour work week is a good start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

If you let your office worker who only works effectively fo 30 hours go after these, instead of having a shitshat coffee for 2 hours every day at the office, you still get the same result.

If you let your butcher go after 30 hours you need to hire another one, because you need a butcher there during opening hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Indeed.

I'd even say it was once the natural way. As you got better/faster at a task, you absolutely got more free time and less work fixing mistakes, too.

If members of a hunter/gatherer community got better/faster, they had more time to do other things. That would still be true if money wasn't the direct goal of all: if a tailor/carpenter/dentist/etc. does a better, more permanent job, they have less work fixing and repairing and get a better reputation.

Only when you manufacture for sheer output and/or your employer's sole interest is to squeeze maximum value out of you is our relationship to work perverted into the now common "the faster you work, the faster you receive more work."