Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.

Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    The best thing to do with economic policies that might negatively impact unproductive sectors such as rentiers is to let them fail. Nobody guaranteed them an infinitely lucrative revenue stream. And if the pricing is sticky, it’ll come unstuck in a big wave once the insolvencies start. We just have to make sure even bigger parasites don’t use that as a reason to seize control of those assets.