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Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay (www.commondreams.org)

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As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is "not radical" given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for corporations but scraps for employees and the working class.

"It's time for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay," Sanders wrote in a Guardian op-ed as he cited a 480% increase in worker productivity since the 40-hour workweek was first established in 1940.

"It's time," he continued, "that working families were able to take advantage of the increased productivity that new technologies provide so that they can enjoy more leisure time, family time, educational and cultural opportunities—and less stress."

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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ignore them. Lazy people will find ways to justify their being lazy. A healthy democracy takes work from everyone. If they refuse to own that on a personal level that falls on them and they have no right to complain when their lives fall in the shitter.

I appreciate the advice, but you have to push back against laziness and people who are so cynical that they don't see any way of affecting change.

If there's more of them than us with that kind of mindset then society falls apart.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You're equating real life with Lemmy. Nothing waves hands here matters. We are on an online forum. I wish more people understood this.

[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Then what the fuck are you doing here. Go away

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well if you can prove that the comment I'm replying to is AI generated then I would agree with you.

It's a great way for those in power to dilute the conversation by throwing up so much junk into the conversations so that no one can take any meaning out of them, but we're not there yet.

Otherwise I'm assuming it's a real live human being who live on the planet with me, and will respond accordingly.

Also those in power who would want others not the gain power would do their best to redirect people away from community town square conversations, where people can get together and discuss issues that's affecting them all, to try to keep them from advocating for change that would be detrimental to their power.

You shouldn't be discouraging the use of online public community town square conversations. You should never ever discourage intellectually honest conversations.

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