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Well now, Half a job

spriche — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:03:07 +0000

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Well now,

Half a job without health insurance would seem to me preferable to no job without health insurance.

Have you ever tried not eating without health insurance?? Have you ever tried not eating with health insurance??

What is it about the math here you're having so much a problem you feel compelled to write about it??

Seems to me, ww, based upon

TheraP — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:05:20 +0000

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Seems to me, ww, based upon your blogs right now up on the rec list that you are already doing 3 jobs! So job sharing might reduce you to 1.5 jobs, which seems to me already way too many. Thus I suggest job sharing with at least 2 other persons.

I know a hospital where staff work one week on and have the next week off. Lots of interesting ways to job share.

Another important idea, WW -

quinn esq — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:37:44 +0000

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Another important idea, WW - like your housing one. Societies have choices about how to distribute unemployment. Ours dumps people into full unemployment (or early retirement), instead of job-sharing, 4-day workweeks, more holidays & longer vacations. I think we've made a very poor choice - and the evidence for its value is quite weak. Unless someone thinks that the 80 hour week & child labor are worth revisiting.

I believe KPMG in London just offered its employees a 4-day week, at a 20% paycut, and got ~80% uptake. For some reason, we prefer to have everyone in our workplaces running scared, everyone afraid they may get let go. And then we wonder why the decline in "consumer confidence" is so widespread.

I say, let's take a day off.... Yes, we lose 20% of our gross, but when you factor in lower taxes and transport costs and such, it can be less than that... And then put pressure on government to find ways to help extend health insurance.