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Note to self: move to finland
Edit: where I live they also introduced a 4 day workweek. You do your 40h in 4 days instead of 5 and now you have an extra day a week ( to recover from all that overtime ).
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Late-stage capitalism yay! /s
I rather have 6 hour shifts and put in 24 hours a workweek to be considered full time. With a bigger check than what I was getting working 40 hours, 5 days a week, of course.
This is the flipside of workers not getting the value of increased productivity over the last 40 years. Yes, we could be getting paid more, but we could (alternatively or also) be working a lot less to produce the same economic output as our parents did.
Unfortunately, this is something only a country that already has social safety nets and livable wages can even propose, because if we're all kept to subsistence, we'll work more anyway (because we have to).