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The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement aims to establish a two-day work week and a five-day weekend
TLDR The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement believes that Americans work too hard and are too serious, and aims to encourage Americans to take all their vacation days and prioritize leisure time. They suggest that by applying Parkinson's Law and following the European model of having more time off, Americans can reduce their work week to two days and improve their health.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement is petitioning Congress to establish a two-day work week and a five-day weekend.
03:16
The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement is an ad campaign to get people to Asheville, North Carolina to create a five-day weekend and highlights the idea that Americans work too hard and are too serious.
06:33
The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement aims to encourage Americans to take all their vacation days and learn to value time off.
09:49
The Friends of the Five-Day Weekend movement believes that by applying Parkinson's Law and prioritizing leisure time, Americans can reduce their work week to two days, improve their health, and follow the European model of having more time off.
13:31
Keynesian economics suggests that by accounting for debt and taxes, a conservative growth rate of the economy could lead to a leisure society within 100 years, but despite exceeding growth predictions, we have not achieved this vision.
17:01
The economists interviewed for the podcast suggest that the reason we haven't achieved a Keynesian leisure society is because Keynes underestimated our desire for relative needs and overestimated our desire for leisure, and they also discuss the need to convince employers to pay a full wage for two days of work.
20:06
The economists discuss the potential consequences of a five-day weekend, including lower wages, smaller houses and cars, and skyrocketing prices for foreign goods, but also note that despite these changes, people would still compete with each other for the best goods.
23:11
The hosts discuss their fascination with Delta Force and their preference for small military operations over large-scale deployments.
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