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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee? by winrid on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:51AM (#32547823)
That's not capitalism to blame, that's just the free market.

I'm not sure any system will let you live this life without a significant investment back into it, first.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee? by stevenhuang on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:33AM (#32550008)
Well if anything a post-scarcity system would do it.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee? by winrid on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:30AM (#32604258)
It's an interesting idea that's fairly new to me. I guess I don't have enough communist friends. :)

It sounds nice, but will never happen on a global scale IMO because people will always fight for positions of power. Complete freedom/autonomy/no agency is not what a government wants of its citizens.

So if there was some kinda revolution, sure, but I speculate it would be quite isolated.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee? by stevenhuang on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:25PM (#32685887)
Post scarcity is more likened to the SciFi utopia of star trek, but yes :)
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