[vevoe]

That makes sense to me. There's another post on the front page right now talking about shortening the work week (I haven't read it yet tbf, so I could be wrong about it's content) because of AI. People have been talking about shorter work weeks for a long time now, it just doesn't happen. What does happen is we get more done and the GDP goes even higher.

[landl0rd]

“Shortening the workweek” sounds pretty bad… some people will suggest literally anything before higher wages.

[bachmeier]

I think that in countries with longer workweeks, that would be an incredible thing. There was recently a story about Denmark raising the retirement age to 70. If you graduate college at 22 and work the average number of hours until age 70 in Denmark, that's the same as working until 59 in the US and 52 in Mexico. Shorter workweeks will almost certainly translate into longer careers.

(https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html Mexico 2226 hours/week, US 1804, Denmark 1394)

[eru]

Real wages are going up all the time.

[eru]

You can already take a job with a shorter work week or move a region or country where shorter work weeks are common.