100% with you . I'm guessin that by some stroke of luck if u won the lottery ur "choice" would change real fast....But in fact if it is a "choice", how privileged for one to hav such choices as to run themselves into the ground, by choice of course.....Just my thought but most would rather chose to use that extra time with loved ones. Just sayin..

Hi Crystal. Hope all is goin well for you.

A lot of the times I've gone to a fast food place there are more employees talking than working. They might be at their place of employment for 5-6 hrs but I doubt many, if any, of them actually work that many hours.

If they made $15/hour for the time they actually work it would probably be a pay cut!!!

To cope with the significant cut in working hours, Feldt says staff are asked to stay off social media and other distractions while at work and meetings are kept to a minimum.

If they'd actually get $15/hour instead of
maybe $2-$4 and hopefully a tip ... they might
in actual fact work AND get your order right!

If they'd actually get $15/hour instead of maybe $2-$4 and hopefully a tip ... they might in actual fact work AND get your order right!

Oh joy,now they have to cram the Work of an 8 Hours into Six!

Is it? Most ppl work because they need money, not because they like their work so much. They need to work 8 hrs or more to make ends meet. Doesn't sound like a choice to me ...

Nope, they're not. It's just that people are far more productive when they're feeling fit and happy than when they've been worn down by hours and hours of work.
THey waste less time on meetings (if you cut the BS chitchat from meetings, you can reduce length of meeting by 80% -that's my guestimate based on my experience).
Some organisations hire extra staff btw. Guess you haven't read the article?
People also tend to remain healthier, less sick leave, burnout and less medical cost, so all in all it's profitable.
This one company said profit went up by 25%!
I totally agree with! Maybe we wont have such high divorce rates and dysfuncrional family structures since the avg American spends a min of 10hrs a day behind a desk!

The problem with free market capitalism is that it has nothing at all to do with the best interests of the society which adopts it.

* it DOESN'T make sure that all needed services and products are available.

* it DOESN'T result in wages sufficient for all or even most people to live above poverty.

* it DOESN'T lead to the highest quality products and services.

* it DOESN'T result in a safe or clean living or working environment for the society.

* it DOESN'T make sure that all real costs of production are paid by those who derive profit from the product or service.

* it DOESN'T balance resource usage in order to preserve future sustenance.

* it DOESN'T prevent or even address abuses of people or of customers.

That's why capitalism only comes close to working positively for a society, when there is carefully designed and thorough and optimum regulation of every aspect of it.

Read on FB that Switzerland is going to implement a basic income for everyone to end poverty.
If that is true, changes are a coming! I know there were experiments with basic income, and the outcome was very positive.
I can't wait!

You might want to read up on it some more!
What you describe is anything but a Free Market or even approaching Capitalism!
You are describing the Mess we have today!

Keynesian much?

I've read up on it plenty, and I think you don't understand what I'm talking about. However, the main thing which I think we CAN agree on, is that there's never been a SINGLE version of what "captialism" means, in detail.

What I'm talking about, is based on the history of human behavior, and on the most common meaning that most modern people apply to the concept of "free market." Most people these days, mean ZERO REGULATION. What most of those same people completely overlook, is that ZERO REGULATION means a lot more than they realize.

It means that they depend on "marketplace punishment" of bad business, for one thing. The idea of that is, that if you bring a shoddy product to market, two things will happen as a natural result: buyers will stop buying it, and a competitor will come to market with a better product, and either force you to improve, or drive you out of business.

That works GREAT, in a local commune. But as soon as you get beyond a small town with no access to external resources, a scalawag producer can come by, sell horrible muck to a lot of people, then move on like a plague of locusts, and carry off the local folks' funds.

The reason why we HAVE things like safety regulations and health regulations, is specifically because the "free market" concept has repeatedly and horribly failed, over and over again, to address such concerns, because things like making sure your workforce survives and prospers, is NOT linked directly and positively to profits.

It's why we have problems here, where wages offered are insufficient to provide workers with a viable living. What the ideal Free Market system would do, is force wages to rise according to the cost of living, because employers would have to offer more to get anyone to work for them.

"Free market capitalism" counts on equal power between customers, workers, and owners. That can't exist in real life, unless the market is limited to the same locality where everyone involved lives.

So. You are probably thinking of something OTHER than a "free market" when you talk about it. Most people are, without realizing it.