[HN Gopher] 4-day workweek employees are happier. One lawmaker s...
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       4-day workweek employees are happier. One lawmaker says it's 'here
       to stay.'
        
       Author : jedberg
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-07-27 20:23 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jvreeland wrote:
       | YES PLEASE. I'd really like to see us head towards 3 6 hours
       | days.
        
       | Hermitian909 wrote:
       | This is such a weird disconnect between middle class white collar
       | workers and the rest of the country. I know a bunch of people
       | working 60-80 hours a week, usually doing multiple jobs, just to
       | make ends meet. It feels strange to be offered the chance to work
       | less than half as much as another human and receive
       | _substantially_ greater rewards for my efforts. It would be
       | interesting to see what this does to social cohesion.
        
       | syspec wrote:
       | What about 1 or 0 day work week employees? Probably the happiest.
        
         | jraph wrote:
         | Yes? Would you not want this for you? I would, this would allow
         | me to work on whatever is meaningful for me, what I believe is
         | worth doing, and engage in other enjoying activity. I'm working
         | towards having the most meaningful "paid" work possible, but as
         | long as I have to cater to customer or company needs, it has
         | small chances to be fully aligned with what I want to do. I
         | also believe a lot of useless crap gets produced, we don't need
         | to work as much as we are doing and we would be better off on
         | many aspects reducing this amount of useless work we impose
         | ourselves as a species. So of course 0 days of work per week
         | for everyone is not conceivable, but reducing the hours is
         | largely imaginable.
         | 
         | We are not talking about a 1 or 0 day work week here though.
         | Various studies and experiments show that productivity is not
         | quite reduced from 5 to 4 day week workdays, while making
         | people happier. Assuming it's true, it's worth it and we have
         | little reason not to do it.
        
         | throwbadubadu wrote:
         | (Fail)
        
           | nickff wrote:
           | The parent is obviously engaging in reductio ad absurdum,
           | which is not a logical fallacy.
           | 
           | Where did you get the impression that they were creating a
           | strawman, or engaging in whataboutism?
        
             | jraph wrote:
             | It does not look like reductio ad absurdum.
             | 
             | Reductio ad absurdum would be more like "Assume X. [...].
             | Then false. Therefore, X can't be true."
             | 
             | It looks like an instance of the slippery slope fallacy.
        
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