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When every action taken predictably leads to economic calamity, it has to be assumed that the result is intentional. Is there a point at which the People say, "Enough!" and do something to end the madness?
hours in a professional work week are arbitrary. people come in, grab coffee, talk most of the day about nonsense…then complain how “busy” they are. back when i worked in corporate America, i think my actual work week was 25 hours of actual work and 12 hours of socializing and eating
The requirement would be reduce hours by 20%, but the pay won't change and over-time will be required at 32 hours.
Much of the California economy is more of a socially based economy based on marketing, finance, consulting and sales.
California I think wants to reduce low-margin industries and have a socially-based marketing, finance, consulting and sales economy rather than a tangible economy based on construction, oil and mineral extraction and manufacturing.
I think Democrats in California frown down on manufacturing jobs, so this is a way to have manufacturers of tangible products who are polluters to leave their ultra-affluent and ultra-pretentious state.
The end cost for items or services rendered will have to naturally go up if a business has a shred of hope of...you know...staying in business and paying employees.
Costs get passed on to the consumer, so all of us here in Wokeland CA will pay more.
So - in the end two spirals:
Costs spiral up
The economy spirals down
The rift between the uber rich and the poor would widen, while those of us in the middle-class would be squeezed out.
Who thought of this??? Oh, Dems, that's right.
"you know...staying in business and paying employees."
Most libs haven't a CLUE what it takes!
We see it over and over on here with their no business experience comments.
Bull**** Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless, and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth.
Graeber also formulated the concept of bull****ization, where previously meaningful work turns into a bull**** job through corporatization, marketization or managerialism. This has been applied to academia, which Graeber and others contend has been bull****ized by the expansion of managerial roles and administrative work caused by neoliberal educational reforms, contributing to the erosion of academic freedom.
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless.
It's as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is precisely what is not supposed to happen....
the number of salaried paper-pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves, not unlike Soviet workers actually, working 40 or even 50 hour weeks on paper, but effectively working 15 hours just as Keynes predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their facebook profiles...
It sounds like CA legislators are trying to legislate people's happiness.
I thought labor laws were set due to demands of employees and for safety reasons.
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