I can say from personal experience that a 24-hour workweek very definitely crosses the qualitative line to where one can be fully engaged in autonomous activity, rather than merely recuperative leisure.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> "Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, >> gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching >> television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of >> work." >> >> Are these effects not partly at least due to the fact that 40 hours is >> still >> too exhausting? Longer free hours would at least _begin_ to turn into >> freedom, period. > > > That is the point. The 40 hour week is very close to the shortest time > that still leaves people exhausted. I don't know exactly where the line is, > but I suspect that any reduction susbstantially below that would be a > qualitative rather than quanitative change - as you say beginning to turn > into freedom. Of course we want as much as we can get, but I suspect that > even a 35 hour week might cross that line. A 30 hour week I'm almost > certain would. Below that - well great. > >> >> > Carrol >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > > -- > Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow > Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com > Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ > Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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