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We should just halve the length of the standard workweek. Everyone works 20 hours a week instead of only the men working 40 hours a week. That's fair.
And everyone gets less than half the pay, so then they need four or five "breadwinners" to have a place to sleep. Each will have three jobs so they can pay for food, taxes, and transportation. It's anybody's guess which adults are the parents of any one child in the domicile.
Brilliant!
That's quite the leap. I hope you stretched first.
Last year, the couple in the other half of the duplex in which I rent moved. A group moved in a few weeks later.
They are a single mom, two younger kids, a teen, and a few unrelated friends. Three incomes at least to afford the rent of $2500, which is at least $700 more than the previous tenants paid - for under 1500 square feet. It's the only way they all could afford to have housing.
I didn't even break a sweat, but thanks for your concern.
Yes, and that's with 40-hour week capitalism in reality.
We're talking about a fantasy world where increased worker productivity would lead to decreased hours. In said fantasy world. There's no reason for the total salary to decrease just because hours worked did.
Same minimum weekly pay.