Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized
Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized
The economy used to function with half the adult population (men) working 40h a week.
I'm not surprised that it continues to function with the entire adult population working 36h a week.
The fact that it isn't way below 20h is a scandal in my opinion.
Cause every work hour achieves so much more productivity now than what it did in the 50s.
But all that productivity benefits the owners, not the workers.
I don't understand your rationale in your opening sentence. A larger population means a proportionate increase in workload.
I am totally with you on the productivity angle. Politicians, academics, journalists warn us about an ageing population resulting in an inverted population pyramid. "Who will look after the elderly?" they cry but never touch on productivity. Even the Left are silent. Strange
The entry point is about women, who previously primarily filled the role of housewives, entering the workforce. Since then, the share of people going to work practically doubled, but the working hours did not decrease, so capitalists got twice as much labor, and as it became harder and harder to lead a family on a single income, they essentially just exploited that extra labor for free.
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"Creative hub." Not really in 2025. Austin is a gentrified techbro hub that's priced creatives out of the city (unless you're willing to build out a van). Honestly, the whole bio is like "maybe put down the Kool-Aid" (dynamic? really?). It's also off register for a story about social issues, which is not among the listed interests.
We're also the 11th-largest metro area in the U.S. AP really needs to get with the times and make us a dateline city.
Does tearing her bio apart contribute meaningfully to the discussion her article is facilitating?
It's relevant to her expertise in the area. It also calls into question the overall state of the outlet that this is considered an acceptable bio.
Questioning sources is just as important as discussing the contents.
Not really, but it does highlight it's written for views.
The article had no citations or links to sources. It only links to other articles in the site.
People need to realise the next step in civilisation is not stealing labour so eventually we can transition to a society that gets it's production from "play" (people produce what they like & how they like it) not from "work" (forced production to maximise financial profit of an entity).
Super fucking cool to see it succeed in practice. I hope it catches on, I really do.
9 hour days though :(
Hopefully countries who are already on 38 hour weeks will try 4 days of 8 hours.
Nice to see that it went well.
♡ it. Work less, play more! (arscyni.cc)
Meanwhile, the US is trying to go to 60 hour workweeks and 6-day workweeks.
Labor needs to organize, and the rich need to be broken.
And don't forget, we also gotta get our children involved. It's outrageous that government regulations are preventing their small fingers from taking advantage of lucrative opportunitues. They yern for the mines!
It will never revert back to that historic barbaric practice. The little fingers will be good at assembling Temu junk on the production line.
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