“One extra hour of work per week would bring us enormous economic growth and is really not too much to ask,” Söder
Additionally, he called for the abolition of sick notes by telephone, already demanded by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and a gradual restriction in the ability to retire at 63
Even if - and that’s one huge “if” - the amount of work done increased linearly (or at all) with hours worked, this would be a single digit percentage improvement at best.
You’d get more work per hour of a worker’s time by endorsing remote work (think of all the hours spent in traffic).
Work smarter, not harder.
Oh no, the Bratwurst fell out of his mouth again! Nobody asked for this food bloggers opinion.
For non Germans: this asshole is the politician with the highest social media costs and he’s constantly posting about his food and his weird fetish for meat.
To add onto that, he is basically never “at work” and more busy to spout weird ideas and food pictures
What does social media cost mean in that context. Because he spends so much time on social media?
Photographers, equipment, stylists. He spends money (and most of his time) to have something to post on social media. And it’s mostly meat related, anti environment or hateful against marginal groups. So it’s not like he’s using this to do something actually related to his job.
Plus he was ranked in a list for notoric fake news posters. Which consequently means I’m paying this guy to lie on the internet and it’s driving me mad.
Tax the rich
Automation increases productivity so that the population can work less and live more. Focus on redirecting wealth where it does public good. If your society has billionares; you have a problem.
Funny thing there: we have been automating an insane amount of work and processes since the 1950s. Email Messages arrive within seconds instead of weeks by snail mail. Computers optimize rail and road fright for optimal performance to ship more things faster or cheaper. Things can be measured, counted and sorted by computers much faster and accurately than humans ever could. A 1000 euro computer and one secretary can do the billing department for millions of orders. How did workers profit from the previous productivity advances? I did not see working hours go down or pay go up by an proportional amount?
8 hours a day, 5 days a week is mostly a 20th century thing. Working hours did absolutely go down from 12-16 hours a day to 8 and working days from 6 to 5.
The interesting thing is that at any point, a majority believed that shorter hours would stifle productivity. But at the end of the 19th century and in the early 20th, some industrialists started actually testing it. In the US the 40 hour week was famously popularized by Henry Ford after comparing productivity to the previous 6 days a week, but this also was about 100 years after others had started theorizing about it.
In Germany the 8 hour work day was introduced in 1918, but at the time that still meant 6 working days. The 40 hour work week only started becoming the norm in the 60ies and 70ies. And in 2001 Germans gained the right to work part time in almost any job even if originally hired for full time.
If you go farther back in time it does look different though because before the industrial revolution, most people would have worked in agriculture, i.e. they were peasants. Their work days would have been long during the harvest period and otherwise quite short. Some seasons were less work in general, and there were more religious holidays. But this isn’t entirely fair because automation didn’t just automate our jobs, but also our personal chores. For example washing your clothes was a lot more manual work before we automated it.
That’s because you do not own the things which increase productivity so much.
Instead they are provided by the company you work for. At the end of the day all you can sell is your attention to do a job, which hasn’t increased since the start of industrialization.
Fucking dipshit. Always the ones who work the least that say the rest of us should work harder. As a society and a civilization, we should be striving to work LESS for the same or greater quality of life, not MORE for worse.
This just shows they have no clue what they’re talking about. 1 hour more doesn’t change anything. Work hours are not productive hours. I could do my work in 3-4 hours and go home. But i have to stay 8 hours, so i just watch something or do personal stuff 🤷🏻♂️
He isn’t even fucking working himself that much. He hardly visits an Landtag or Bundestat sessions. Lazy bastard
Every politician should have to work two weeks at the lowest paid job in their district. After that, they should be given a performance review and have their salary adjusted accordingly.
Söder södert
Breaking news: The, the man-whore Söder, who married a trust fund baby, tells other people to work harder and longer.
So the guy who married into a billionaire family tells others to work more. Why won‘t he just tell us to marry better instead? Seems like a much easier way to get rich.
Says the guy whose job consists oft touring Bavaria opening nearly each beer festival, no matter how small, and otherwise making TikToks, what he eats all day long.
And his Party is basically trying to lobby to lower the inheritance tax in Bavaria.
We get a higher unemployment rate and people loosing their jobs, it doesn’t help anything if you work more and no one wants to buy your machines, cars and so on…
This cartoon sums it up the best for me, what they are trying.
This picture sums it up perfectly. We should do or have to do something against the billionaires!
Start owning the means of production.
“ownership” is really just about being able to make the decisions how things are being used, i realized that recently.
Have you already marvelled at Blackrock?
That’s the guy who told people with 400 euro jobs to just get 2000 euro jobs. mind blown! Why didn’t they think of that?
If you’re homeless, just buy a house brain explodes
Let them eat cake.
I’m not german but how about a big “no” for that genious suggestion?
This type of idea puts me in such a state of mind I don’t even have the energy to curse.
Listen to science. Actually listen to experts and learn that people produce more and better in shorter work days. Want more work hire more workers, plan activities better and automatize repetitive, predictable, tasks.
Politians work for the people. The people owe them nothing. Stop trying to force socities back.
Listen to science. Actually listen to experts and learn (…)
Yeah, that’s where you will loose most politicians.
How many hours does Markus really work in a given week? I’m wagering “few-to-none.”
He’s a quite prolific food blogger, though, don’t know if that counts
He doesn’t work at all. He has others work for him and then pats himself on the shoulder for being such a hard worker.
Or rides of the success of his predicessors, who even denounce him, and claims their work as his.
That’s what pretty much all politicians in power in Germany have been doing for 3-4 decades by now. They let infrastructure (not only the physical infrastructure, also social achievements) built by their predecessors ages ago rot, if they’re not actively destroying it, all while pretending to make things better.
It’s wholesale theft and wanton destruction of public property.
Pretty much yeah. I am not disagreeing with you. I am from bavaria so my news are all full about exclusively Söder, not others but from what i know the Minister President of NRW, Schleswig Hollstein and Baden-Wüttemberg dont do that.
Schleswig-Hollsteins Minister President couldnt be more opposite to Söder.
Baby Boomers and Gen X ruining everything…
It’s not an “generation” issue. It’s a political caste issue. Politicians are living in a different world. They can pretty much steal and take bribes with impunity, have influence over the public media, while corporate media will support them as long as they do their owners’ bidding, which also tends to be quite lucrative.
Of course, there are different degrees of destructive and corrupt, but at this level of politics, you won’t find a single person with integrity.
you won’t find a single person with integrity.
German Parliament: Gregor Gysi, Stefan Seidler, Claudia Roth, Jan van Aken, Robert Habeck (no longer in politics), Violetta Bock, Koçak Ferat
EU Parliament: Nico Semsrott (former MEP), Damian Boeselager, Nela Riehl.
I could also name some local politicians but i think my point is proven.
I see it as a generational problem coming from the overall mindset of Gen Boomer and Gen X stemming from the world they grew up in and how they got brought up. A vast majority of people from all walks of like, from those generations share the attitude seen in the current leading politicians.
Of course there many not like their generational peers
wait, why did we automate all of our work again?! to have to work extra hour?!?! the me math’s not mathing man :(
(aware that this isn’t really directly related to the article, just please lemmy be >:( )
This guy - cant believe how anyone voted for him instead of cringing hard. Petition to send him and his ego directly to the moon with his Bavaria One space plans.
I might consider it if a worker says something similar otherwise it’s just the same old, same old. Snidely Whiplash yelling for more. More!
