Bernie: ''Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay is not radical"

[MichMan]

14. "Hire more people and offer flexible hours"

Sure, it is hard enough to hire people as it is. Where are all these extra workers going to come from?

I take it you never worked in a manufacturing plant

Production is dictated by keeping machines running efficiently as much as possible.

If a machine produces one widget every 5 minutes, the machine can make 12 widgets per hour and 96 per 8 hour shift. Most plants I worked in ran 3 eight hour shifts a day with maintenance on the weekends. That means in 1 week, each machine can make 1440 widgets per week. Reduce the workweek to 32 hours and that means a machine sits idle for 24 hours a shift and therefore only produces 1152 widgets.

How will they make up the missing 288 widgets ? I guess they just need to buy a bunch of extra machines and hire more people. Greedy fuckers