its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force

A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.

There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let's ignore science because it feels like it's more productive to force productivity.

People like simple solutions more than listening to science.

More cops, less crime.

More work, more productivity.

More billionaires, better economy.

This just in: people will resort to any means necessary to eat. More at 10.

If poors stop doing crime and cops can't arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??

The purpose of cops is not to reduce crime.

As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.

Source?

This just confirms my preexisting biases a little too much.

Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn't go along with the will of the powerful.

They don't exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property "crime" is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting "crimes" committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it's the riff-raff that suffers.

They're minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.

Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.

This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.

Related: it's been long known that giving unemployed people money is good for the economy.

"I'm a supporting member of society because I work 40h/week, and you aren't" simply isn't true.

I don't have the scientific paper to support this but I've known it since the 1990s.

Economists know it too. It doesn't even have anything to do with "socialism".

No no no, that's socialism! Which people have learned is bad... Because, empathy is toxic!

This is psychologically unsatisfying for too many people. At the core of capitalist propaganda is the idea the the rich and the poor both deserve what they have. In the US, we further buttress this ideal with something called "prosperity gospel".

System bad

Yeah but that doesn't serve the prison industrial slavery complex

They know. But it's better for them for crime to be up and police to be fat, so they can run on being hard on crime, and police works for the rich instead of the people.

AgE oF sCIence aND prOgREss

But does it protect capital?

Ahh but you see, blaming the poor for all the problems is great they can't effectively fight back and if they do, it's super easy to fearmonger about the riots of 'those people'

Gotta keep em separated...

Yeah, well, science also says Twitter is an information black hole, and few that need to see this will see it.

I know it’s microblog memes, but still. It’s surprising to me how much scientist believers post about the state of the world… on Twitter. It’d be like going into a Nazi bar in Berlin to warn about the Holocaust, or to criticize Catholicism in the Vatican, and thinking you’re somehow in an open forum.

…At least it isn’t a blue checkmart Tweeter, though.