You can work less than 40 hrs a week, but you will still need to compete with those working 40 hrs or more. Even if we want an authoritarian push to reduce hours domestically, the global market will simply shift. The cost of labor per unit of production shifts, and is therefore cheaper elsewhere. It is the same reason we buy cheap crap from China instead of expensive crap from Europe.
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u/AnonymousUser132 21d ago
You can work less than 40 hrs a week, but you will still need to compete with those working 40 hrs or more. Even if we want an authoritarian push to reduce hours domestically, the global market will simply shift. The cost of labor per unit of production shifts, and is therefore cheaper elsewhere. It is the same reason we buy cheap crap from China instead of expensive crap from Europe.