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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by dx034 on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:09AM (#15275494)
Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days. Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less.

I totally agree with the health problems it causes though.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by randomdata on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:11PM (#15278137)
> Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days.

I'm not sure either, but, at least as the story is told today, that was Ford's motivation for implementing the 8 hour workday at Ford. He allegedly surmised that if people were too busy working, they wouldn't have time to buy his products. It certainly seems plausible. If you spend all your time working, you really don't need to buy much other than the basic necessities, which doesn't help with a robust economy.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by eli_gottlieb on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:21AM (#15275618)
>Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less.

Well have we tried it?

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by bryanlarsen on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:22AM (#15276181)
Henry Ford did, to great success.
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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by marcosdumay on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:56AM (#15276467)
> it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less

That looks likely. But it will reduce the concentration of wealth (probably, dramatically), so expect some opposition.

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