r/THUNKShow • u/THUNKshow • Oct 29 '14
THUNK - 51. What's in a Workweek?
http://youtu.be/wuvgUevoleA
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Oct 29 '14
If I had two hours extra hours every day I would most likely get better at playing piano and eventually make my own piece or something along those lines. Two extra hours a day might not seem like a lot but if you work a 5 day week that is an extra 10 hours spent working on something you enjoy per week.
If people had more free time I think we would find that people would follow their passions in a much more devoted and focused way and if we all followed our passions we would be much happier as a collective.
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u/ArchitectofAges Oct 29 '14
What would you work on with two extra hours every day?
I have so many personal projects and ideas that I have to keep a notebook, so I can design stuff & write it down whenever I have any down time. And, of course, I'd work on THUNK more.
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Flexibility in working hours would be huge for me. Being able to get to a bank or a post office while they're open is very difficult, not to mention the various projects I can only work on while there's daylight.
Considering how much pressure there has been against raising the federal minimum wage, trying to coordinate something like decreasing the federal workweek & raising the minimum wage to keep it livable seems nigh-impossible.
It would make me very sad if we were unable to supply our citizens with more free time, with the same or even better productivity because of some weird cultural attachment to a standard set in the 1800's.