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In reply to the discussion: Latest Onion: Where Satire Ends and Crying At the Cold Truth of it All Begins. [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)... and minimum wages that support a comfortable life with good food, safe shelter, appropriate medical care, and universal literacy.
Employers who demand work more than that, for less pay, thus excluding others from employment, ought to be thrown in prison. In this modern world some kinds of "work ethics" ought to be classified as mental disorders, and demanding employees work overtime for low wages ought to be classified as slavery.
The only exception to work hour limitations ought to be emergency service workers, and then only for highly unusual situations of the sort that occur a few times some years, and not at all other years.
Our "productivity" is killing the planet and We The People are not enjoying all the fruits of technological innovation.
Everyone ought to have leisure time to express their inner artist. The creativity of leisure time is the field upon which true progress and productivity grow.
"The devil finds work for idle hands" is Puritanical bullshit.