☆ Dmitri ☭
From an ecological perspective, a mass reduction of working
hours à la Keynes could be a major contribution to saving
the planet. However, there seems to be a consensus “that not working is very bad; that anyone who is not slaving away harder than he’d like at something he doesn’t especially enjoy is a bad person, a scrounger, a skiver, a contemptible parasite
unworthy of sympathy or public relief”
- David Graeber on bullshit jobs.
Adam
@yogthos Further to that, a recent experiment by a large company in Britain showed that when they cut the working week to four days (with no decrease in pay), productivity actually increased. So even within the context of capitalism, shortening the work week seems to make sense.
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