The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week

jamesbond · Post by **jamesbond** » January 12th, 2012, 8:57 am

Here is an interesting article, giving the case for a 21 hour work week.

"The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says there is nothing natural or inevitable about whatâ€™s considered a "normal" 40-hour work week today. In its wake, many people are caught in a vicious cycle of work and consumption. They live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume things. Missing from that equation is an important fact that researchers have discovered about most material consumption in wealthy societies: so much of the pleasure and satisfaction we gain from buying is temporary, ephemeral, and mostly just relative to those around us (who strive to consume still more, in a self-perpetuating spiral)."

Here is the full article.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-case- ... -week.html

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » January 20th, 2012, 10:59 pm

jamesbond · Post by **jamesbond** » January 21st, 2012, 8:05 am

Ghost wrote:A 40 hour week is not needed, I agree. Some work is of course. Society still has to function. And 40 is not always horrible, depending on the kind of work and how it is scheduled. But for those who work 60-80 + hour weeks? Pissing their life away.

There are more work in the workaholic US, than any country in the world. In the USA it's life, liberty and the pursuit of a paycheck.