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Tom Walker (popup@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca) wrote:
: THE CASE FOR SHORTER WORK TIME
: by Bruce O'Hara

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Thank you for a most interesting post, with which I totally concur.

Jeremy Rifkin, Matthew Fox, and others have written books on this subject 
which are excellent. And Fritzjof Bergmann comes to Vanouver from time to 
time (Nov 17th next) courtesy of th e New Work Institute. He is a 
philosophy prof U of Mich who is on a year sabattical to work with 
underprivileged in creating work.
So much is happening, but a long ...way to go.

In a recent spell of employment I notice that people around me are 
"workaholic" even without being paid overtime. It may be a substitute for 
thinking, working smarter, or having a life. I used to be "workaholic" 
and now claim to be cured, but I could feel the tug again, the excitemnt 
of creating something, or whatever. Also I felt the unspoken pressure to 
conform to the group norm and work long hours rather than rethink the 
problem, never mind propose that more people be hired while those there 
work less.

In those days when the more we work (in certain ways) the more we degrade 
the planet's resources, there is a long education process ahead to 
retrain ourselves that work may be as undesireable as smoking, at least 
if done to excess!


Colin