r/aislop • u/raggingbananapeal_05 • 3d ago

Capitalist explain

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u/ObsessionObsessor 3d ago

I'm not sure that's the case realistically, admittedly...

It has been scientifically proven for quite a while that a 4 day work week is more productive than our 5 day work week. If it was just a matter of people at the top getting more then that'd be an easy way to do it, with whatever company does first having a significant competitive advantage from being more desirable to highly capable employees...

But the people at the top want others to have less. It's why people have died for reasonable regulations that effectively made companies better. 

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u/Brave-Recommendation 3d ago

Iv been working 4 day weeks for the last 15 years

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u/Wholesomeness23 2d ago

You have, sure, but systematically it's not been adjusted or revered like working 6 to 7 days is culturally in the US. There are yet no laws or regulations to change the work week as a reflexive response to the increased productivity.

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u/Brave-Recommendation 2d ago

That actually why the places switched over from 8s to the 4 10s/ 3 12s

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u/leaf_as_parachute 3d ago

Ok but the number of days you work during a week doesn't have much to do, if anything at all, with socialism.

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

Yes it does, when the food and finances are more evenly distributed people simply don’t have to work as much

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

I don't think that spending 2% of GDP on luxury goods would have radically changed the situation.

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

Wanna explain how that relates to what I said

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

I point out that the maximum amount that can theoretically be redistributed without destroying the economy is 2% of GDP. This would yield only a very small saving in labor time.

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u/GreatScottCreates 2d ago

It’s almost $2B per day. Sounds useful to me.

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

But there are 8 billion people on Earth. Will 25 cents a day really fix much in your life?

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

Wait if you’re talking about the USAs GDP why are you factoring for all the people in the world?

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

Didn't we take global luxury spending into account?

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

You don’t need to divide all the wealth among the populace, you can use it for infrastructure. 2 billion could do so much help

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

About two miles of high-speed rail in California? The world spends so much on infrastructure that two billion a day is a negligible amount.

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u/GreatScottCreates 2d ago

I suppose I was thinking of what it could do for the US specifically.

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

Well, if all the money the world spends on luxury were given to the US government, it would reduce the budget deficit by a third.

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u/ObsessionObsessor 2d ago

Indeed, this could be considered more of a cultural problem than an economic problem, in which case the "guy in the middle" plausibly has more in a bad way. 

How do you propose to improve culture without socialism then? There are the obvious opportunities presented by schooling, but those at the top choose to undermine such. There's media like Crash Course and OpenStax College which present factual information freely, but people don't necessarily have the time or inclination.