[t-writescode]

Because if we did we’d have universal healthcare, 4 day work weeks, WFH where possible, walkable cities, and a lot more housing, and every single one of those things makes it harder for abusive jobs to control their employees.

[toomuchtodo]

Progress is a functioning of effort, time, and luck. It’s a marathon. Keep grinding. Success is proven possible.

[amelius]

We're all in competition with each other. One person works 4 days, another person still working 5 days puts them out of business. Reality is more complicated but in the end there is no way around this basic fact.

[toomuchtodo]

Labor law changes reduce the work week, as was done previously. How many people work six days a week for no additional pay beyond five days today?

With population declines locked in almost globally (About 71% of the world’s population now lives in countries with birth rates below the replacement level needed to maintain population size), working age population decline, reducing labor supply, is also locked in. Reduced go forward labor supply reduction means labor power.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/fertility-rate-of-world-pop...

https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_fa99ccdbe...

The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866621 - August 2025 (400 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680794 (US specific citations)

[latexr]

> universal healthcare, 4 day work weeks, WFH where possible, walkable cities, and a lot more housing

My my, seems like we gots ourselves a socialist o’er here. We don’t take kindly to your kind ’round these parts. What’s yer idea? Improve folks lives? Treat others with respect and dignity and give e’ryone meaning? Are ya cuckoo in tha head? Git him, boys.