Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance: The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work four days a week instead of the typical five

It's 2021, we've got robots that learn and vehicles that drive themselves. A three day work week is totally possible, and for service, healthcare, and other person-to-person jobs, we can train and hire more people, increase employment and stability, and for the love of all, stop trying to make executives and admins multi-millionaires and billionaires and eventually trillionaires. We don't need extreme, obscene luxury for a privileged few, we need and want meaningful, helpful, productive, creative lives where we can build families, communities, and pursuit happiness. We can't have any of that when millions are crushed by the burden of carrying billionaires.

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