First of all your theory of cutting the eight hour shift to four hours would make a person making 4k a month make 2k. Then you said you wanted to slash their wages in half so they would only be making 1k a month. So we all just got super fucked based on your proposition. The altered work week I can deal with, in European countries and others they work less hours and research has shown they have the same productivity. No argument there.The problem is you are blending simple economic principles with complex economic principles and it does not wash. You are arguing a form of socialism or even communism which also have flaws. Amerikkka is based on Lase Faire I know i spelled that wrong. You are attempting to adjust the basic principle that this greedy fuck everybody country was made on. What Bush is pushing with these bailouts goes against the system too, but he is still instilling Reagonomics and the Trickle Down Effect. Don't help the common person help the big businesses who will then in turn help the common person. Let's start with some basic shit like health care. Every person should get health care. Poor people get it free and rich people can afford it. Working class families are getting fucked left and right. Then there are wage differences in Amerikkka so how are you going to slash prices so that the lowest wage earners in your system can still afford basic shit? How are you going to account for inflation. Are you going to make China slash their imports so we can afford them? Or are you going to make us a third world country so the businesses will move back to Amerikka and pay us 5 cents and hour for four hours? Then we can spend more time with our kids but can't feed them. What is your assumption for how currency is negotiated or valued? Why is amerikkkas dollar so weak? How is your system going to account for that? I am not an economist by any means but your Utopia aint that Utopian.
Nah, what your saying slashes what people make twice. I'm talking about one slash. You make 4,000 now a month, with my idea you now make 2,000. That 2,000 doesn't get slashed down again to 1,000 like you think I'm saying.
Watch, instead of one worker working 8 like today, he now works 4. And in order for the business to get the labor of a current 8hr worker we see today, he would now have to hire another worker. Two 4hr workers = 1 of today's 8hr worker. But the economy has to shift back to compensate so we still have the same purchasing power as we do today. It's the psychological/sociological acceptance, that lower number of $'s can still buy the same amount of goods we do today. But as a result we work less hours a day since our whole structure is built around 4hrs, instead of 8hrs.
I don't think it has anything to do with communism and shit like that. It's just cutting what we do now, in half, but doubling the workforce to compensate with the hours needed to fill a typical business day. Like I said, it would have to be based around a psychological/sociological acceptance that what we perceive today as making 4,000 a month, we would have to accept that it's now perceived as 2,000, but inturn, the economy as a whole adapts so we still have purchasing power. What we perceive as being $10 today would have to be perceived as $5 in the economy I'm talking about. But out of all of it, we get more freetime, 4 more hours a day.
I guess it's kind of like also arguing that our current economic structure of 8hrs. a day doesn't allow enough workers per day. So my idea cuts each of those 8 hour workers in half to 4hrs., thus allowing more people to work to fill up a typical work day. But salaries get cut in half to compensate with the greater workforce, thus the entire economy must compensate by prices going down by half as well.
As a result you get 4 more hours of free time and greater workforce.
