+ 4 Day Workweek (32 hour workweek; we work too much, let's give everyone Friday off)
This one is really, really, silly. Now, I could possibly see going to a 35 hour (7 hours, 5days/week) or to a 36 hour (6 hours, 6 days/week) workweek but the idea of a 4 day workweek is idiotic. An occasional three-day weekend is something to look forward to, but there are an awful lot of tasks in which you need one responsible person doing it most business days and there's not much call for businesses to be open only four days a week.
Actually, I think the 32 hour workweek is one proposal of TNF's here that I do support- we live in the future. We have robots. We don't need everyone to be slaving away all the time anymore to support a productive economy.
What I take issue with is the idea that the best way to do this is to give everyone Friday off. That might have made sense decades ago, in the old paradigm of everyone working in factories and offices, but think about instead where people increasingly actually work- in the "service" sector- and also think about what people are going to do with their extra time off. They're going to go to restaurants, to bars, to the doctor, to stores, to shows, etc... all things that require other people to be working to make the most of one's time off. It's not like we all have Sunday off as a day of rest to stay home and contemplate the Lord and don't do anything outside anymore.
Give people more time off, absolutely- but stagger that time off, so it's actually useful. Maybe one person can work Mon-Thu, maybe someone else can be on the clock Thu-Sun, etc.
That's actually a really good idea. Additionally, people could still have time to attend religious services on the days that they choose, rather than only get time off on Sundays, which is kind of unfair to people who don't attend services on those days.
