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Originally Posted by edslunch
Maybe everyone should have a part time job
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This is something I've been thinking about in conjunction with UBI. If the average full-time work went from 40 hours a week to say 30 hours does that mean that more people could be employed to cover the 25% drop in hours worked per week? I'm not sure that the correlation would be anywhere near 25% more employment but I'm guessing the level of unemployment (for those that can and want to work) would decrease substantially. This would reduce EI payments, increase payroll taxes collected by the government and also would likely decrease the amount of other social programs (social services, policing, emergency services, etc.) If you combine this with a guaranteed basic income that is enough to not starve but not enough to not want to work it could potentially alleviate some of the budgetary and societal issues governments face.