A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.
There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let’s ignore science because it feels like it’s more productive to force productivity.
I was going to mention the same thing. The recent AI craze and productivity studies are another similar thing. Same with return-to-office. Our rulers (the owner class) put power and cruelty over rationality.
Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.
Ahh but you see, blaming the poor for all the problems is great they can’t effectively fight back and if they do, it’s super easy to fearmonger about the riots of ‘those people’
Gotta keep em separated…
Related: it’s been long known that giving unemployed people money is good for the economy.
“I’m a supporting member of society because I work 40h/week, and you aren’t” simply isn’t true.
I don’t have the scientific paper to support this but I’ve known it since the 1990s.
Economists know it too. It doesn’t even have anything to do with “socialism”.
As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.
Why not both? Other people’s desperation is not an excuse to rob you.
It’s more effective on a finite budget. Just like focusing on a rehabilitation is better than focusing on punishment in prisons. The Norwegian method spends way more per person but the ones that go through the system are much less likely to come back. This means that per person Norway spends way less than a lot of other countries.
Norway spends 3x more per prisoner than the US but spend half as much on prisons.
More policing creates more criminals, which increases net desperation since society punishes people with a criminal history.
Yeah I’m not excusing the burglars. I’m saying the way to reduce the number is burglars isn’t more police, it’s less desperation.
Because we live in a universe of finite resources. So maybe be efficient, and do the things that work best first. When we have a budget surplus we can talk about where to spend that.
Can I ask what they took? It’s none of my business, but I guess I’m morbidly curious about what they were desperate to have, and why burglary was a better option than, say, shoplifting or something
Mostly jewellery eg my wife’s engagement ring, also weirdly a Lego set
I’m sorry that you lost something of such sentimental value
Yeah, I miss that Lego set
Have you seen the cost of Lego?
Let me guess… They’re investigating but have no interest in doing actual police work once the case is filed.
Bad cop, no doughnut.
The first two responded to the initial call, the second two were from the forensic ID team, checking for prints and seeing if there was anything likely to give a good DNA signal. I don’t know what else I could expect from them. I know they worked with the power company to figure out what time my power was cut, and went to my neighbours to see if they had any video from that time.
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They know. But it’s better for them for crime to be up and police to be fat, so they can run on being hard on crime, and police works for the rich instead of the people.
Prison labor is essentially legalized slavery so there is incentive to keep poor people incarcerated. There’s a reason why the US is the most incarcerated nation in the world.
i think the situation wouldn’t be as bad if there weren’t also for-profit prisons that have an additional incentive to exploit people who are incarcerated. all prisons should be nonprofit. (what a weird thing to say out loud)
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Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting at the supermarket, no you didn’t.
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Loss is calculated in anyhow. Unless they go out of their way there’s no way to know what caused it - shoplifting, breakage, employees making themselves feel slightly better about their abysmal working conditions…
Most of the people who work there don’t even care if you’re shoplifting.
Except for that one overzealous middle-manager who will immediately get irate as if you had insulted them personally, as they demand you go back to the register so an underpiad cashier can embarrassingly ring up every item so they know exactly how much you stole, and finish by entering your face into a 3rd party database that will flag you every time you walk in any other store that also utilizes this database.
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Wrong.
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Really holding back on saying some inflammatory stuff with you here, but try to look at it this way:
People don’t want to give away their money individually to poor people because that doesn’t work and it’s costs them A LOT individually to support a single person with low success rate. But collectively we can pay very little to solve the problem on a mass scale. No one is expecting crime to drop to zero, but a big reduction in it for a relatively low cost is an INCREDIBLE value.
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Sure. I don’t think anything you said is necessarily wrong. But I think that improving the lives of many is worth the risk of some criminals getting a bit more at the expense of everyone. Plus, law enforcement isn’t something I think should go away, but it’s disproportionately funded compared to things that actually help many people.
but in some cases that’s literally banditery, so giving them money is giving in to bullying;
How do you think this works? “Hello, Mr. Criminal, I’m Government Man, here from the government! Please take this check and don’t do any more crimes.”
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But does it protect capital?
Does no ones reed the Bible? We’re suppose to let criminalers do the crimes because that be how the police state gains trusters of there cops.
Man no subway doing fetty. Moithing off. Threatens, loude, obnoxious. That a cop. Catching people who pimp homeless womin sex skave in tent. But you commute ruin cuz pussy can’t handlers the way the workd works.
Amd their alway be horrie, awful peoplers who hurt people regardless system. That why Trump master bait. Who offer knight with fish or mouse? The worst! We round up. Soon. Likely next administration in big “gotcha” that will piss of right as obvs. next prez super left, as system work!
This is psychologically unsatisfying for too many people. At the core of capitalist propaganda is the idea the the rich and the poor both deserve what they have. In the US, we further buttress this ideal with something called “prosperity gospel”.
Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that need to see this will see it.
I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… on Twitter. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum.
…At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.
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the people are kept poor so that they can push more people towards the military, it’s a known scheme. the fed gov fundamentally doesn’t care about people’s wellbeing; how would it? it’s never held accountable by the people. it’s too far away, too abstract, too difficult to walk there with pitchforks and torches …
