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Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by golergka on Saturday May 20, 2023 @04:50AM (#36010349)
If somebody else is willing to do the same job for less, it means your asking price for your services is too high. Americans love to complain about stagnation of wages, while in reality it just means that people in other parts of the world have reason out of poverty competing with them on a labour market. If you value a Chinese life just as much as an American one, the fact that American worker can now afford one car per family instead of two but a Chinese worker can now eat meat on a regular basis clearly is a benefit to humanity.
Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by charlie0 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:29AM (#36012208)
I fully agree, but what does this have to do with letting workers work less as productivity increases? Are you implying that stage would only occur if productivity gains are spread equally across the world?
Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by golergka on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:51AM (#36012392)
Letting? Nobody is forbidding workers from taking less shifts. It's workers themselves who decide that higher compensation is more important for them than leisure.
Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by antifa on Saturday May 20, 2023 @08:36PM (#36016897)
The vast majority of workers can't take less shifts, unless they are OK with becoming homeless.
Re:It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by golergka on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:15AM (#36018213)
So you are not really talking about working less, you're taking about higher wages, which is a whole different conversation.