It amazes me how people resist ideas. I'm on Pen-l, I see it all the time, and still amazed. This headline makes it sound like a question about either/or. But the CEO of google was asking people if they liked, first one, then the other. And all answered YES to each. Yet the journalist writes it up as madness.
Gene Bershidsky: More vacation or a four-day work week? Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page says we should all work fewer hours, and -- like most people -- I love the prospect. "The idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people's needs is just not true," Page said at a recent event organized by the venture-capital firm Khosla Ventures. He was joining his voice to that of another business icon, Richard Branson, who has long championed part-time employment. What they propose, however, would require a complete overhaul of the way governments redistribute wealth: Having people work less would mean instituting some form of universal basic income. Page believes in "giving people things to do" because they tend to be unhappy otherwise, but he is convinced that satisfying humanity's basic needs doesn't require everyone to work all the time. Do 600,000 Chinese people really have to die from overwork every year, for example? full at: http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/more-vacation-or-a-four-day-work-week-leonid-bershidsky-1.8706706 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
