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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 05:34:54 EST Strypey

   @aspittel thanks for sharing this. One thing it points out is that in counties with higher taxes, but fully funded social services, people can afford to spend fewer hours a week at their job. Calvinist conservatives will say this is bad, because work and jobs are good, but this is wrong. If work is good, why isn't automation illegal? What's actually good is the *products* of work having been done, not work itself. Jobs are just one means of dolling out work some people want done.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 05:38:42 EST Strypey

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      @aspittel if people can afford to work fewer hours, then it becomes possible to spread the available paid work hours around, and create more jobs for the same amount of work done. This helps solve both unemployment and overwork, as well as freeing people up to spend more time doing the unpaid they really care about their families, community, as citizens etc