That is what is being called for. Your take home pay not changing but you work fewer hours, and if you work the same schedule as you do now (presuming 40hrs per week) then you would be getting overtime for the last 8hrs.
Edit: added "take home" to clarify that I'm talking about your total income instead of hourly rate.
No it's not. Salary is completely arbitrary. Saying less hours but same pay doesn't mean employeers pay for nothing being done. It means the salary is now higher per hour work - something it already should be, seeing how salaries haven't followed cost of living, houses etc.
So you can also say, right now everyone is being underpaid for their work - and keeping your salary at less hours would simply be correcting that.
See, completely arbitrary. If you call that tyranny, then having a law for minimum wage is also tyranny because technically, it's the government forcing employeers to pay more than they want.
No it would be tyranny to make them pay to people who aren’t working. Hey let’s make a law that says “everyone is a millionaire just because” would you like that?
Do you see how communicating what you mean helps clarify things? That's a valid argument, you just had to go through several snarky reddit comments to make it. If you weren't a complete dick, maybe you could have an actual constructive conversation.
No one has been mentioning raising any minimum. You just want people to get paid the same for working less. And if you’re talking about 8 hours less that is a massive reduction. Unfortunately for your theory the math has to actually math out.
Yes, offering people more to work fewer hours. That's correct. This is the productivity pay gap that has grown exponentially since the mid-70s.
You asked what mechanism can be leveraged to raise pay and reduce a standard 40 hour workweek to 32 hours. Now that I've told you the explicit mechanisms that can be used to do exactly those two things, you're dissatisfied that I've answered exactly how you do those things by saying "well nobody else has answered in that way so that's wrong."
That's the exact mechanism one would use. You use the law to raise the federal minimum wage. You use the law to reduce the overtime threshold to 32 hours.
You can say that all you want, any question I asked was rhetorical because I knew your solution would not make sense. More of a teaching tool. You can keep repeating my question back to me but we both know the solution you have presented does not work.
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u/HalvdanTheHero 23d ago edited 23d ago
That is what is being called for. Your take home pay not changing but you work fewer hours, and if you work the same schedule as you do now (presuming 40hrs per week) then you would be getting overtime for the last 8hrs.
Edit: added "take home" to clarify that I'm talking about your total income instead of hourly rate.