Misaki
Senior Member
- Jul 8, 2011
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Target: Educated workers, business and community leaders in the United States
Sponsored by: Occupy Wall Street
The reason these problems exist is simple: we are socially rewarded for working long hours because it lets us say we are already helping other people and there is nothing more we can do.
This helps people we know, but hurts people we don't know since most of the problems of the world are due to a lack of money, which usually comes from paid work. We can change the social incentives to work more by affirming that we don't have any problems and don't need any help.
For some businesses that have salaried employees work overtime to avoid hiring temporary workers, it would help when unequal work is done by coworkers to compensate at maybe 70% of the normal rate when someone works extra time.
When unemployment decreases this way, wages go up but there is no inflation because people still look at prices.
This gives jobs to people in poor countries as well by increasing demand for cheap products. No starvation in Africa. No need for military spending or wars as a jobs program.
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