In this new era with only enough jobs for half the population for the next 50 yrs should we cut

[kentuck]

8. The government should cut hours worked

By cutting hours, they can create more jobs. How?

Cut the work week to 35 hours per week. Overtime for anything over 35 hours. Cutting 5 hours off the normal work week would be like cutting 1 out of every 8 workers. However, by cutting hours, if employers wanted the same production they got with 40 hours per week, they would have to hire more people, ideally it would be one person for every seven people now working? However, we know that would not happen. First of all, employers would attempt to squeeze that lost production out of the other seven workers. Unfortunately, one cannot get blood out of a turnip whenever people are squeezed to the max already. They can give no more.

How would we cope with the lost wages? Would not a substantial increase in the minimum wage drive up the wages of all workers? But it would take a Democratic Congress to pass something like that. But not just any Democratic Congress, it would take a progressive-minded Democratic Congress.