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lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
1. Shorter work week, higher overtime rate, mandatory annual leave.
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:47 AM
Nov 2013

Anything that constrains the supply of labor.

Constraining the supply of labor 10% would directly create new employment opportunities for 10% plus the increased economic activity would be enough to employ the rest.

"The world"? I have no clue. It is also not my problem.

Shorter work week, higher overtime rate, mandatory annual leave. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2013 #1
Your solution would only increase profits because this productivity rate would soak up that 10% CK_John Nov 2013 #3
Beside helping environment we need to crash human population on point Nov 2013 #2
That is why I think it will take 50yrs for population to level out with productivity. CK_John Nov 2013 #4
Make it up as we go The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #5
How about a no-growth (steady state) economy based Ron Green Nov 2013 #6
That's what it going to take, new ideas, new ways. CK_John Nov 2013 #9
Passions and dreams don't require growth when confined to the imagination The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #11
Higher pay and expansion of service economy bhikkhu Nov 2013 #7
This leads into my idea of new type schools for what we use to call shop, less CK_John Nov 2013 #10
Change the system or create a subsystem. Tigress DEM Nov 2013 #8
"Productivity" needs to put down like an evil vampire. Drive a wooden stake through its heart. hunter Nov 2013 #12
Where is the money coming from for the subsidy? The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #14
I talked about "money" where??? hunter Nov 2013 #15
That's what subsidy usually refers to The2ndWheel Nov 2013 #16
Let's say we passed a law that deveoloped property left "fallow" for more than a year or two... hunter Nov 2013 #17
"Jobs" are just stuff that needs doing. CJCRANE Nov 2013 #13
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