SIO435: The Radical Idea That We Shouldn’t Work Ourselves to Death

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced Senate Bill 3947 to change the standard 40-hour workweek to 32 hours with no loss in pay and held a hearing on March 14th. Naturally the right doesn't love this. But what do the studies say? And where did the 40-hour week even come from? SeriousPod colleague Lydia Smith explains how this particular issue highlights ways in which we can combat rhetoric from the right and move towards something that is, on every metric, better than what we have now.

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 435 I'm your
0:20.0	host Thomas Smith that over there is today's expert, hello expert, Lydia Smith.
0:25.2	Hi. What are you an expert in this time? I'm an expert, what I've realized, I'm an expert on work.
0:32.4	I don't know because I did the minimum wage episode you know and and
0:38.2	here I am back to talk about more work that that was just like a really bad
0:42.4	interview like oh so what would you say your biggest
0:45.4	assets are?
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.4	There's work I can do the job.
0:50.4	Again you hired me so if you don't like my responses in my interview.
0:55.0	Yeah, no, so I wanted to come on to talk about the four day work week and this is something that has been talked about for a long time a long long long time and I'll talk a little bit about the history
1:08.6	but the reason it's been coming up more often in the last week is because Bernie Sanders introduced a Senate bill.
1:17.0	I know that guy.
1:18.0	Yeah, and co-sponsored by Lafonza Butler, who is the replacement when Dye and Feinstein died.
1:23.8	She's the individual that was brought in to fulfill
1:26.5	the rest of that term.
1:28.0	And this is Senate Bill 3947,
1:31.7	and it is titled the 32 hour work week act and it is to amend
1:38.1	that won't apply to us right because we're on the 487 hour work week
1:42.1	like every single hour, yeah, you are working act.
1:45.0	I'll be excited to hear about this mythical four day work week after this ad break, of course,
1:50.0	that non-patrons, you can get rid of it by going to Patreon.com slash
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