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Waypoints 41: The Gang Solves Capitalism

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Waypoints returns as Austin, Patrick, Rob, and Cado discuss their need for more time off in light of an interesting analysis by the People's Policy Project. Why do US workers do so much more work every year than most of their peers? Looking beyond vacation time and holidays, what emerges is a series of socio-economic problems that too few people can get help for, from retirement to sick leave to family leave. And why do companies, who are so often worried about productivity, ignore studies that show working less hours in a week leads to more productivity? After the break, the gang tries to figure out what to make of Kamala Harris' proposed 10-hour school day. Is the right solution for the wrong problem? Does this proposal lean too heavily on private funding? And might some of the solutions we spoke to in the first half of the podcast target the root of this problem, rather than the symptom?

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0:00.0

Oh hello, you found waypoints.

0:21.8

Really waypoint staff and friends take a break to nerd out and deep dive on the culture,

0:25.6

art and entertainment that's been inspiring and provoking us lately.

0:29.1

We have it around the table this week. We've got Patrick Kleppek.

0:31.9

Hello, hello, Austin Walker. Hey.

0:35.6

And Kato watching the signal. Yep.

0:40.3

So I've been thinking it over and I think we're all working too much.

0:48.0

Um, and maybe it's just the way this is a meeting or a podcast.

0:53.2

I think the meeting now radical transparency.

0:57.4

Last couple weeks Austin has raised some very good points at the close of each pod.

1:02.3

Fuck capitalism. Go home.

1:05.5

And well, but I'm working there. So is it true later home or is the call coming from inside

1:12.4

the house, Patrick? Damn.

1:15.2

In some ways we should actually when we get into this topic, this is a point worth returning to.

1:20.9

This is. Uh, but actually that was a bit front of mind when I saw this thing come across

1:26.9

Twitter earlier this week from the People's Policy Project called the leisure agenda.

1:32.8

It's written by Ryan Cooper. It's based on research by the People's Policy Project and the Gravel Institute.

1:39.4

But basically it is the sort of comprehensive survey of how little American workers tend to have leisure time.

1:49.5

And it starts out as being telling story I think we're all familiar with, right?

1:54.4

Americans compared to workers and other nations of similar with similar economies tend to work more

2:02.2

than those workers tend to. But what really caught my eye here is while it's framed in terms of

2:08.3

leisure time, what the entire study is kind of laying out is this notion that leisure time is not

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