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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek (techcrunch.com)
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A.I. aside, we should get 4 day work weeks regardless.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (6 children)

But what laws are being proposed by which lawmakers? You understand we need congress for this proposal, right? You say Bernie wants 32 hours, but is he for raising wages forcing all corporations and small businesses to raise their wages by 20%, or just raising the minimum wage? Who else in congress is on board with the laws he's proposing? Is there a bill? Until any of that happens it's all talk.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    You do know this is not the fun kind of trolling? I don’t mimd you taking 30 seconds of my time

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I dont find trolling potential leftists fun, so Im not sure what the fun kind of trolling is in this context. I dont benefit from trolling you because you might have information I want: The names of lawmakers and what policies or laws or bills they support to bring about fairer labor laws. You either have that information and are willing to part with it, or you arent willing to part with it, or you dont have the information. Im not sure which one is you since you remain deliberately obtuse.

    So far you have given me: Bernie Sanders wants 32 hour work weeks for full time benefits. Very cool, but thats not legislation. Bernie is a legislator, he has done much better than creating a bill that says "32 hours for full time. Increase wages or else we will... be mad?" and he has made a lot of good bills and amendments in the past with much better language. I was hoping for a bit more from you is all. My bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    You either have cognitive issues or you think wasting my time is funny

    -What is the name of a politician that was mentioned in the post? You have the guy who promised to do the thing -While I cannot physically imagine why you are expecting hundreds of pages of a political program on lemmy instead of taking your lil hands and looking it up yourself, which I won’tbe doing for you, you know whats the supposed endgoal is! And then you can look up your preferrred analyst and choose to believe them or not!

    And I am being obtuse…

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Thanks for suggesting I look it up, I found this:

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1332/text

    This is a great example of something that addresses the concerns I have, I assumed you already saw this since you seem to be informed on the issue. Are there any more like it that can potentially address any other concerns I mentioned before?

    Bare in mind, the amendment proposed in that house bill does not address any of the following:

    • It does not require employers to pay workers the same weekly pay for fewer hours (i.e., no guaranteed wage preservation).
    • It does not require employers to adjust hourly wages upward to compensate for lost hours.
    • It does not establish a new minimum wage or cost-of-living adjustment.

    None of the current FLSA text mandates any kind of salary or wage calculation, so the amendment has to include it if that's the solution proposed, which it seemingly is not. Again, you say I can look this stuff up and it's all available and this is all I could find. Surely you know more than me, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Look at how much time you saved and look how much better info you got…

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I would have saved so much more time if you just answered my questions, and now all I am left with is obviously you have no clue about 32 hour work weeks. You also don't seem to be capable of expressing why you think this is a good idea. You are the obtuse one, in my finding. You think I'm the one trolling when obviously you are the one who is just saying things to argue for no reason. You contributed zero to this discussion. I was asking the questions. I found the information. I came up with the conclusions. All you did was say "I like bernie sanders her dur"

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