Re:Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
by medvezhenok on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:00PM
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Then pass UBI instead and drop the minimum wage laws (there's no need for them if UBI were a thing). Problem solved.
Right now the problem is in the power dynamic between companies and employees - the dynamic is very unbalanced in the companies favor. In "Bullshit Jobs" Graeber compares the current system to a Dom-Sub relationship with no safeword for the "fake-competitive" industries that are not unionized.
Right now the problem is in the power dynamic between companies and employees - the dynamic is very unbalanced in the companies favor. In "Bullshit Jobs" Graeber compares the current system to a Dom-Sub relationship with no safeword for the "fake-competitive" industries that are not unionized.
UBI is the safeword.