Marie BagatelaFeb 3, 2012 08:24 PM
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Thank you for the most intelligent and inspiring comment I have received in my erstwhile blogging career. As I see it, we both are concerned with 24 millions of Americans currently unemployed, under-employed or giving up looking for work. Conveniently, these 24 millions could find employment in the course of reducing the work day to 6 hours. Of course, this would require adjustments retraining and relocating workers for starts. Employers must open job opportunities and expand marketing efforts to sell the increased production. This is a good time to increase the use of new technologies such as alternative energy projects.
We approached the same problem from two different sides. I began with employers appropriating worker productivity increases since the 1970's. This means that wages should be 60 to 70% higher a tidy sum. Labor compensation flat-lined, as the bosses had enormous salary increases, stock market flings, yachts etc. Housing market collapsed, the execs sit on $2 trillions that could have gone to productive investment creating 10 millions jobs to start.
You opened new lines of thought for me and I hope this effort reciprocates at least in part.
We could collaborate along these lines if you are willing.
Being a g-mail zero, I'll have trouble contacting you, but you already have contacted me.
