The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week

[JohnWood]

The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-case-for-a-21-hour-work-week.html


It would create jobs and stop the unsustainable cycle of rampant consumerism.
Prepare yourselves for post-industrial (post bubble) society, as we are ready to enter the informational age. I just love socialism..

[JohnWood]

Certainly with the advancement in robotics, unemployment will continually to stay high in the stratosphere for many years to come. Hence the need for a 21-hour work week. To keep the masses employed and occupied (especially amongst young people) and so on and so forth..Eventually will we enter the world of Gene Roddenberry ?
Beam Me to the Enterprise
http://convergence.sprint.com/blog/post/2011/04/26/Beam-Me-to-the-Enterprise.aspx


I was recently thinking about how each and every year, the number of people working in purely “digital jobs” continues to increase. It made me think of the basic economic premise of Star Trek: When Gene Roddenberry created that series, he envisioned a world where the basic needs of people were satisfied with an unlimited supply of raw materials, allowing folks to focus all of their energy on knowledge and exploration.

[JohnQPublic]

Similar to France's 36 hour work week recently, just a bit more extreme.

[LuckyStrike]

As was written about it Economics In One Lesson, the goal is not maximum employment, but maximum production. Taken to it's extreme it would be robots doing all of the work while we pursue the interests we enjoy.

However I don't see this happening in the foreseeable future, in America we produce nothing, whether robots make it or humans make it, which to me is more dangerous to national security than anyone admits publicly. The store shelves would be wiped clean and stay clean for months or longer if the rest of the world (especially) Asia stopped shipping us stuff. No electronics, shoes, car parts etc. I am unclear how under this condition we could ever wage war with China and they have to know this.

[Ponce]

Like I wrote long ago.......one of the reasons that everyone had a job after the deppresion was WWII.......however......now days you have machines doing the work of man and with nothing to export there will be even less jobs to be had.

In 200 years there will no USA and in 500 will only have the memmories of what we were, and in 2,000 years will become the leyend that was..... as are now the ones from Atlantis.

[madfranks]

I don't see how limiting one's productive time to 21 hours/week does anything to help advance the economy. And it doesn't solve unemployment, it just takes one man who has a full time job and another man who has no job, and giving both of them 1/2 a job.

[osoab]

I don't see how limiting one's productive time to 21 hours/week does anything to help advance the economy. And it doesn't solve unemployment, it just takes one man who has a full time job and another man who has no job, and giving both of them 1/2 a job.


Poor house for everybody!

[Hatha Sunahara]

It's a socialist idea. It spreads the work to more people. It helps the slaves to share the crumbs they throw to us. It's because we all need jobs. So they divide the available work among more people. When we get used to poverty, they will reinstate the 40 hour workweek, then the 50 hour workweek, and our pay won't go up--cuz we'll be used to poverty by then.

Hatha

[Ponce]

Office workers on a 40 hours week usually play more (comp) and work less.......but .........with a 21 hours week they will have to work more and play less.....to me that's more productive.

[StreetsOfGold]

These kinds of ideas in this article go far further than this.

Consider what the Anti-Christ is said to do when he comes.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Also note that this will happen as ordained by God himself.

[JohnWood]

I appreciate all the insightful response. I apologize for not being too engaging during daytime. My 9 year old son that has Asperger syndrome. And he is a load...lol. I should know I guess. I was the dental director of a particular Washington State Developmental-disabled (down-syndrome) institution for three years. Hence my interest in the University of Melbourne Post-doctoral Special Needs Specialty program..I have to oversee my son doing his homework at night time as well. So I shall do most of my research after their bedtime..Again thanks for all the response.

[Barbaro]

The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-case-for-a-21-hour-work-week.html


Prepare yourselves for post-industrial (post bubble) society, as we are ready to enter the informational age. I just love socialism..

Have we already entered the 21-hour work week (underemployment)?

As for socialism, we're likely heading in the opposite direction. The money isn't there for socialism (entitlements).

I don't expect to get any entitlements.

[po boy]

Work 21 hours for your employer then produce and sell on the side or even better spend time with family and friends.

There's more to life then 40 hour work weeks.

[Half Sense]

I agree most people would have richer lives if they worked less.

[horseshoe3]

I must disagree with the two previous posts. Man was designed for work. Life is given fullness and richness through hard work and the sucess it usually brings. Idle hands are the devil's playground, but not only that, idle hands lead to the breakdown of a man physically, mentally and emotionally. It is no coincidence that many men are doing fine right up until retirement, and which point they go downhill and die in short order.

Edit: I reread both of those posts and it appears they may be referring to less work for an "employer" and more time being productive at various other tasks. In that case, I can agree. The 40 hour week is probably a bad thing because it takes a man away from home where he is needed. For a man to be productive as a self-employee where he can teach his children at the same time is the best way.

Prior to the industrial revolution, Mom was in the house and Dad was usually no more than a half mile away. That was an excellent way to raise healthy, capable, responsible kids through unlimited time with the best natural role models.

[EE_]

Many have already entered the 21 hour work week...40 hours work for 21 hours pay.
As far a robots doing the work, who will build the robots, China?

On a positive note, we still have the best damn taco factories in the world! Yeay America!

[milehi]

http://youtu.be/k22b2qJUhzg