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It’s Time for a Four-Day Workweek (jacobin.com)

submitted 2 years ago by grte to c/canadalabour

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well in that case you'd still benefit from the change because overtime would kick in after 32 hours instead of 40.

"Overtime" doesn't "kick in" when you're working at your third job that only gives you 20 hours a week because they "can't afford" to pay overtime every time you have to cover someone else's shift.

Of course reducing inequality and putting more of the nation's wealth in the hands of working people is a part of the project.

As we continue to move away from full-time jobs to a gig based economy, none of this applies to anyone that needs it. If you want to put money into the hands of working people, just put money in their hands. Capitalism is incapable of providing care for the members of society that don't have capital, and trying to fix society's problems with Capitalist tools is doomed to fail.

[–] grte 5 points 2 years ago

I agree. In my view, the project of the labour movement is socialism. Part of getting people on board with that vision is it's proponents winning tangible benefits for people like that outlined in the article. You can't just get to socialism by critiquing the current system, you have to build a sustained, organized movement and the labour movement, being a movement of the working class, aligns nicely along the idea of putting the working class in charge.