How much should we work?

20 push 80 take a brake repeat...

 

enough to give a person a work ethic and a sense of being you don't have to work for money, you can volunteer enough that it helps live the life you want and take care of any responsibilities whether it be on a beer or champagne budget

 

we should work less and earn more money... lol!

i dunno... i should think of it more profoundly... :huh:

 

I'm a musician...I don't have set hours to work, and I'm glad. I hate schedules. I never do anything before 2pm, which is when I like to get up. I work my ass off for 3 weeks then take a month off cause I feel like it.

Anyway, why should it matter how many hours you work? Some people work 10 hours a day and are less productive than someone who works 6 hours a day.

The real question should be: how productive should I be?

 

I don't mind the idea of working for my food (ie gardening, farming, hunting and gathering) but I do not like the idea of trading time (which doesn't REALLY exist) for money (which also definitely does NOT exist) to trade for food and shelter. F that.

 

four hours a day, four days out of every six, with a third day off every third week to make ninteen mounths of ninteen days each, with four intercalery days left over, five every fourth or leap year.

four hours a day four days a week, leaving up to another four or five hours a day to continue our eduction for the rest of our lives, always learning and studying something new that intrests and fascinates us.

and still lots of time to sleep and play.
all of the work that really needs to be done, if it could be distributed equitably to everyone willing and able to do it, without culturaly motivated makework, that four and four would entirely suffice.

so 16 hours out of every six days, three times that; 48, every 19 day (solar) 'month'.
and however many that works out to 19 times that a year.

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Absolutely! The key is equitable distribution of labor and compensation, that would be utopia. There's plenty of resources for everyone to be happy and healthy while working less hours. Unfortunately, the existence of an upper class necessitates an oppressed impoverished lower class to sustain itself, and the only way to change that would be to require the upper class to relinquish some of their wealth for the common good. Ain't gonna happen.

 

I like the way you think.

 

I like the way you think too!