But why FORCE people to maximize their purchasing power? There should be more of a place for people who want to take it slow, and say work two 30-35 hour a day jobs between a married couple (thus having approx the same # of working hours per week as a couple did in the 70s). No stigma should be attached to that.
And things like health insurance and retirement benefits should be 100% divorced from employment in order to minimize fixed costs of hiring. And thus the cost difference between three people working 35 hours a week and two working 52.5 each. If that’s socialism, then I’m proudly a socialist in this respect.
