This is either a cute thread or sad thread depending on your answer BooBoo. If you are under 19 you have a lot of potential, just a really abstract mind, because the basis of all of this is so you can have FREETIME to have fun. If you are over 25 you are up shit creek and probably on something high powered. Anything in between and you're a toss up. I favor the 10 hour work week myself. I also am a proponent of working from home or a mobile workforce. There are other ways for you to achieve FREETIME without changing a million layers that are more realistic. Think of something tangible. Like 40 said you only dream when you are sleep. You need a concrete plan to achieve happiness.
Is this Economically Possible?
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let's say for 5 years you make x amount of money then out of nowhere your income gets slashed in half. all that money you loose will fuck you over and now you are in serious debt because of it. the average american barely makes over a liveable wage and that's it for america. your manager won't cut hours for you, he would just start the next new employees at a much lower starting pay and not give raises, then make you even more responsible for shit so you can get extra stressed out so he can fire your ass.
NO, I said just cut hours in half. So naturally, your wage will get cut in half also. I'm just saying that if your hours get cut in half, what you make is obviously going to get cut in half also. Get it? Not cut both, just the hours.
I'm basically trying to think of something where we work less, but still have the same buying power as we do today with our current system. Not out of laziness, but just more time to enjoy our lives.
It's really not that hard of a concept, but I'm not exactly sure how or if it will work.
The way we perceive what money is worth would have to change. Right now if I want to buy a TV for $1,000, the seller is going to expect $1,000. That's just the way the economy is. With my idea, the seller would now have to expect $500. The seller would have to simply accept the offer. Everyone in the economy as a whole would have to re-adjust their thinking of what they think stuff is worth. A standard 20oz. soda bottle is about $1.00 now, in my economy, sellers would have to re-adjust their perception of what it's worth to $0.50.
I just think that salary & prices of things are in close relation. Prices are just kept at an equilibrium so most can afford the essentials. Therefore if we are all making less (because of only 4hr shifts), everything would have to come down in price. Everyone would have to perceive shit to cost less and accept it.
I'm 22.
I'm basically trying to think of something where we work less, but still have the same buying power as we do today with our current system. Not out of laziness, but just more time to enjoy our lives.
It's really not that hard of a concept, but I'm not exactly sure how or if it will work.
The way we perceive what money is worth would have to change. Right now if I want to buy a TV for $1,000, the seller is going to expect $1,000. That's just the way the economy is. With my idea, the seller would now have to expect $500. The seller would have to simply accept the offer. Everyone in the economy as a whole would have to re-adjust their thinking of what they think stuff is worth. A standard 20oz. soda bottle is about $1.00 now, in my economy, sellers would have to re-adjust their perception of what it's worth to $0.50.
I just think that salary & prices of things are in close relation. Prices are just kept at an equilibrium so most can afford the essentials. Therefore if we are all making less (because of only 4hr shifts), everything would have to come down in price. Everyone would have to perceive shit to cost less and accept it.
I'm 22.