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The idea of working just four-hours a day, no overtime, no
double shifts, will not resolve employment questions, but certainly initiate a
much needed discussion.
A story in the Melbourne Age headed: Generation Lost?, discusses
what is happening in Europe, particularly Spain; a situation that has evolved
for a complex set of reasons, but among them the fact that general intent has
been about seeing society locked into a working week of about 35 hours.
We need to reimagine our society, rethink how it operates
and reengineer it operate just as successfully, but obviously with different
aims, and the ensure people life lives that are both contented and happy and
free from the menace that the present addiction to the economic world brings.
A generation will never be lost if our society is structured
differently and the emphasis is not on accumulation, rather the betterment of
friends and neighbours.
The Four-Hour Work Day brings with it
through what it is a marked jump in leisure time and although under the present
paradigm that appears wasteful in the extreme, in a freshly engineered society
that will allow for purposeful leisure time in which people could grow their
own food, work and share their lives, and skills, with neighbours.
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