{"id":6983,"date":"2020-10-19T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2020-10-19T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:22:22","slug":"more-thoughts-on-ubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=6983","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on UBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=17432388&amp;cid=60623472\">post on \/.<\/a> approaches what I&#8217;m thinking about regarding the &#8220;normal&#8221; work week of 40 hrs x 5 days a week.\u00a0 Who said it had to be this way?\u00a0 Why not 4 days x 8 hrs (not 4 x 10 as is often offered, since it somehow needs to be 40 hrs. week).<\/p>\n<p>The whole capital\/labour balance be shifted?\u00a0 \u00a0At a base level, capital wants to pay as little s possible; every penny not paid in wages drops right to the bottom line.\u00a0 Since greed makes the world go &#8217;round, this will be very hard to fight.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the reverse is true; labour wants to be paid as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure this is an obvious thing to the well-educated.<\/p>\n<p>When the balance shits too far to capital: riots, general strikes, eating of the rich.<\/p>\n<p>When balance shifts to labour, ??? perhaps no incentive to spend capital, since cost of production will exceed sale-able; but all those labours have money so they&#8217;ll spend, driving the economy higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post on \/. approaches what I&#8217;m thinking about regarding the &#8220;normal&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,140,58,178],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-work","tag-paul","tag-politics","tag-ubi","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}