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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek (techcrunch.com)
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A.I. aside, we should get 4 day work weeks regardless.

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[โ€“] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

  1. Interesting. I was under the belief that disability benefit requiments basically meant "unable obtain and maintain full time employment due to a disability". After some research it seems it's more about how much money you earn than how many hours you work.

  2. Are you not conflating Part Time/Hourly and Full time/Salary?

70% of Americans work full time and just under 60% of American workers are paid hourly wage.

For example, every factory I've worked in has been Full Time hours with hourly wage pay.

It's mostly Managerial/corporate positions that are salaried afaik.

[โ€“] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

AFAIK there is no such thing as hourly full-time in the US. Some places do the paychecks that way, but you are either part-time, full-time exempt, or full-time non-exempt.