Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.