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  • #136
    "Any trips to the doctor to be paid out of pocket would do plenty to get you on yur way there."

    Not if we take me as the average resident for total consumption as I did for that number. It includes government-funded services I consume.
    “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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    • #137
      Originally posted by DanS

      I don't know why the trend was arrested in the 1970s for the US, so I can't really judge whether this is just temporary, or whether other industrialized countries will also arrest their descent.
      Well the break in the trend seemed to happen when you had the slowdown in productivity in the early 1970's (that seems to make sense - real wages wern't growing so fast so employees stopped wanting to cut their hours so much).

      It will be interesting too see if the US and EU situations reverse over the next decade as productivity growth has slowed by 0.75% a year the EU and speeded up by the same amount in the US (they are both now at around 2% a year) - this may already be happening to some extent as the gap between US and EU hours increased by 102 hours a year in 1980-1990 but by only 57 hours in 1990-2000
      Last edited by el freako; September 2, 2003, 00:17.
      19th Century Liberal, 21st Century European

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      • #138
        35 hour work week

        The next step is for the US to implement a 35 hour work week like France. I've discussed this extensively with French expatriates, and we all think this is a good idea.
        “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

        ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​

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        • #139
          For many of us, it's already 37.5 hours--not including lunch, of course. But the "problem" with a 35 hour/5 day work week is that it just would be that much more overtime. If we went to a 4 day workweek, I would be cool with that.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #140
            Re: 35 hour work week

            Originally posted by pchang
            The next step is for the US to implement a 35 hour work week like France. I've discussed this extensively with French expatriates, and we all think this is a good idea.
            Yes, some love the 35 hrs so much, they work it twice.
            “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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