Carlos Slim, the world’s second-richest man finally said the one thing we’ve all been waiting for a self-made billionaire to say: work less. Way less.
At a business conference in Paraguay, the telecommunications magnate said it was time for a “radical overhaul” in the way people work, the Financial Timesreports: people should only work three days a week.…
But there’s a catch: in exchange for working fewer days a week, we should work for more of our lives. Instead of retiring at 50 or 60, workers should work until the age of 70 or 75, the 74-year-old Slim said.Time
The World’s Second-Richest Man Thinks You Should Work Only 3 Days a Week
Sam Frizell
For this to work, the capital and labor share need to become more equalized in order to support demand with increasing gains in productivity from technological innovation that go primarily to owners of capital and high-end workers. But it's doable. Just means shifting the moral attitude toward work away from the dominant Protestant ethic that is now an artifact of history that has outlived its usefulness.
