Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 15:14)
How Many Hours a Week Should a Worker Work? Who Should Decide? Legislation Proposed in California Points to Lunacy of Government OverreachCalifornia Considers the Four-Day Workweek by Wall Street Journal (Katherine Bindley)California’s French Four-Day Workweek by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)Part II (15:14 - 17:56)
‘Adam and Eve Were Not Commanded to Lounge in the Garden of Eden’: The Dignity of Work from the Biblical WorldviewPart III (17:56 - 25:21)
Federal Judge in U.S. Blocks Masks Mandates While Chinese Government Exercises Autocratic Control Under COVID: The Tragedies of TotalitarianismA Federal Judge Strikes Down the Mask Mandate on Planes and Public Transit. by New York Times (Charles Savage and Heather Murphy)China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone by New York Times (Li Yuan)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 19, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.0 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | How many hours should you work in a week? |
| 0:15.0 | Who should say how many hours you should work in a week? |
| 0:19.0 | Who should say how many hours a company or an employer might require employees to work. When do you have a |
| 0:25.2 | normal work week over which hours are counted at say something like time and a half |
| 0:29.8 | who decides any of these things? But as it turns out, those questions are among some of the most basic in economics, |
| 0:35.8 | but they are also some of the most basic as we think about the worldview implications |
| 0:40.6 | of our economic lives. Now as you think about forms of economic lives. |
| 0:42.8 | Now as you think about forms of economic theory you can think of say on the far left |
| 0:47.0 | wing forms of collectivism that is to say it is a denial or a restriction of private property and the right of individuals to establish private |
| 0:56.1 | contracts. On the other side you have Laysay Fair, absolute free market and that means that human |
| 1:01.6 | beings at least in theory, are economic actors able to enter |
| 1:05.9 | into whatever mutually satisfying contracts that might be arranged. |
| 1:10.9 | Now as you think about those two, you recognize that in the 20th century we did see some |
| 1:15.8 | people making the argument on the far left of collectivism we saw not only that |
| 1:20.3 | the horrifying social experiments of communism, Marxism, and state socialism. |
| 1:26.4 | We've also seen what happens in economic terms when you have a denial of the right to private |
| 1:31.5 | property and a denial of private contractual |
| 1:34.4 | economic relationships and you try to have an actor the state make all these |
| 1:39.6 | decisions in the name of the people yes that is the far left and the 20th century showed us a great deal |
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