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I'm sure I'm not seeing something clearly, but I'm not sure just what....It is harsh math of life that if we have a job and make the money to do they things we really want to do, we often don't have the time.And if we don't have a job, we have the time, but not the money.And if we finally have the money, we often are to the age where we no longer are up to doing all that we wanted to before.When I was in my early teens, I got it in my mind that I would like to walk from Tampa, Florida, to Cleveland, Tennessee--just over 600 miles. Of course, at that age, I didn't have the money to do it. And I was only off from school in the summer, and it was too hot to do it then. And when it was the right weather, I had to go to school. And now that I am a few more years to retirement, I find that other goals (I'm not too big on walking to Tennessee any longer) are also thwarted by either not having the time, not having the money, or both. It seems that most of us must wait until we are retired to, it is hoped, have the time and the means to do some of the things we want to do.But it seems that every year that passes causes us to release yet another goal or dream. And by the time we actually retire, it might be that our only dream is to sit down and not have to do anything.So I got to thinking....Let's say that you make $10/hour (to keep it simple). And you work 40 hours per week. You bring home (again, to keep it simple) all $400. Your mortgage/rent, car payment, gas, insurance, groceries, electric bill, etc., costs you the equivalent of $320/week.But by having to work throughout the week, you don't have a lot of time to spend as you wish. But one day someone way up in government says that they are going to change things. From now on, you will work HALF the time as before (i.e., 20 hours), but still receive the same amount of money. OR you will work 20 hours a week, but your pay--AND THE COST/PRICE OF ALL ITEMS--will be cut in half.So there you are. You work half as long, but make the equivalent of the same amount. Businesses aren't losing anything either with the reduced hours, since their costs are also cut in half.But now with 20 additional hours of free time, you can perhaps finally read War and Peace. Or what have you. (Of course, if you really decide to use that free time, there is the possibility that you will need more money, since you are now doing something you were unable to do before.)In any case, IF this were enacted--the whole half the hours, half the pay/costs, etc.--would it work? And to be on the safe side, lets assume that the whole world adopted this.

It cannot work because in this example you are asking manufacturing companies to accept half the time involved to produce a product (i.e. a car) and then sell it at half price.I truly think many producers could cut their profit, but many work on a tight budget. In this example it seems you are expecting a corp. to accept the price of their product a '25%' by cutting the labor's hours in half and the price of the product in half.It just ain't gonna work. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Thankfully you weren't serious when you posted this - you were only pointing out how ludicrous the whole socialism thing is. Half the work, gdp cut in half. Everybody cuts pay in half...soon you are North Korea...no lights, no water, no food. I will use this illustration in my next class to show how stupid Bernie Sanders stuff is. Great work Aaron - showing how idiotic that whole idea is. I love how you wrote as if you really believed it...it gives it extra impact

It is like wanting to increase the minimum wage. That would be great for those making minimum wage, but the powers that be aren't going to give up their profits. So that means people would be losing jobs and/or prices would go up significantly. You get what you pay for More of Him...less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

I take it you have never owned a business? You are assuming that a business won’t lose any money because it’s costs have been cut in half. First of all, that could never happen simply because you will never get all of the business suppliers to go along with this. Secondly, all publicly traded business operates for one purpose only: to make a profit. The owners, in this case the shareholders, expect a return on their investments and they are not in the habit of settling for less than their anticipated ROI. At least the ones I have worked at operate this way “Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”

Why would profits shrink in costs are also halved?

How will the fixed costs be cut in half?Half a building, half an air conditioner, half a truck, half a brain (well I know who supplies that)

How will the fixed costs be cut in half?Half a building, half an air conditioner, half a truck, half a brain (well I know who supplies that)? I may not be as clear as I want to be.... ALL costs are halved. For instance, if I am leasing you a building for $1000 month, well, since ALL costs are cut in half, you would not pay only $500/month.

I take it you have never owned a business? You are assuming that a business won’t lose any money because it’s costs have been cut in half. First of all, that could never happen simply because you will never get all of the business suppliers to go along with this. Secondly, all publicly traded business operates for one purpose only: to make a profit. The owners, in this case the shareholders, expect a return on their investments and they are not in the habit of settling for less than their anticipated ROI. At least the ones I have worked at operate this way. FLRon, right, if the suppliers won't go along. But I am talking about an idealistic system here where ALL players--producers and consumers--agree to half pay, half hours, half costs.

If a widget takes 40 hours to make, you can't just issue an edict that it now takes 20 hours.You might say, well, they can just make half as many, but what if the current number of widgets is what is necessary for the population to survive?