Workking fewer hours is just the first step

The Four-Hour Work Day is just the first step in preparing us to cope with unimaginable changes that will settle upon the world as our climate becomes increasingly variable.

Beyond significantly reducing our near obscene use of fossil fuel powered energy and enabling the abatement of climate change, the idea of the Four-Hour Work Day will help break the economic choke-hold corporations presently have on the world.

Working four-hours a day in the traditional sense, no overtime, no double shifts, except for privately owned businesses of four or less people, will change existing paradigms to the extent that communities will be re-invigorated and neighbourhoods will have new life breathed into them.

Our communities of the next generation will inevitably need resilience and as people will be able to spend more purposeful time in them and subsequently they will be able to “work” to help build that resilience in their neighbourhood.

Understanding and adapting to a shorter working day demands a whole new mindset; a mindset from which the unfolding calamities remove choice, leaving us no option but to move in that direction.

Led by the promise of a better life, a promise that for a minority of the world’s population  has been realised, but one which has brought with it an inequality that it obvious in every community, should you care to look around.

The difficulties of moving to the Four-Hour Work Day and manifest and frankly I have no clear answers, but I do have faith in the innovative and creative abilities of people.

The present state of our exhausted world and the exponential growth of our numbers leave us with no option but to at least begin the conversation about how we lead and live a life more in keeping with available resources.