Good morning, BrewDaily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. On

today's pod, it's Indigenous People's Day and we have a special episode for

you. Special indeed. We're testing out a fun new format called Bullish or

Bearish. It's Monday, October 9th. Let's ride.

So we teased it a little bit, but here is what the format of the show is today.

We've come up with eight big picture topics for Neil and I to debate. Some we

chose ourselves and some we source from your suggestions. So thank you for those

emails. For each topic, Neil and I will adopt a stance. Are we Bullish,

aka optimistic or bearish, aka pessimistic, and then do our best to defend the

position we take? Neil, may the best ofator win, I guess? I have been

preparing for this for my entire life. These topics are really juicy, probably

too juicy, but it's going to be fun. I can't wait to beat you. I'm excited and

also a little nervous, but let's dive into our first topic. Up first, are you

Bullish or bearish on the four-day work week becoming the norm for corporate

life in America? I'm going to say I'm Bullish on this happening because in high

income countries, annual working hours per employee has been cut in half

between 1870 and today. So let's take Germany, for example. Annual working hours

there were in 1870 were 3,200 and in 2017, that it's now 1,300. So that's a

60 percent decline. In the 19th century, people worked as many hours between

January and July as we do this entire for an entire year nowadays. So I don't see

any reason why in 2023 with all of our productivity growth, all of our

technological innovation, whether it be any reason for this long precipitous

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