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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by chii on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:37AM (#27570432)
> I live in a country where welfare benefits allows me to eat and have a home.

that just means you're living off taxation of the wealthier. It's not sustainable if everybody did this - at least not under today's technological capability.

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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by bluefirebrand on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:01AM (#27570683)
People only become wealthy by capitalizing on the skills and labour of those less wealthy so I don't see any problem with taxing some of that and using it to help the less wealthy, instead of allowing them to evade paying anything with loopholes and hiding their money offshore.
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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by jokoon on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:52AM (#27570599)
> It's not sustainable if everybody did this

Well there always are certain jobs that are necessary to exist, but there is a large quantity of them that has very low value and nothing would be lost if they did not exist.

People don't eat money.

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