Disagree... If an employer has X number of hours of work to be done but has to limit each employee to less than is needed, the only other option they have is to hire more workers. A larger number of workers doing less work essentially accomplish the same amount of work.
“Disagree... If an employer has X number of hours of work to be done but has to limit each employee to less than is needed, the only other option they have is to hire more workers. A larger number of workers doing less work essentially accomplish the same amount of work.”
There are other options. There’s no reason your friendly neighborhood grocery store couldn’t cut their hours of operation by a few hours a day. Don’t need as many union thug employees that way.
When I was growing up in a small town, stores were open from 9 to 5. The bigger of the 2 grocery stores stayed open until 6 during the summer months.
No need to have quite as many stores either, nor quite so many square feet in each store. Unemployed food-stampers have lots of extra time, let them ride the socialist bus to the other end of the city to find a store that’s still operating. At least, when the bus driver union thugs aren’t on strike.
Fewer people will be buying the high-margin speciality foods. Some “hypermarkets” will gradually become “supermarkets”, supermarkets will become grocery stores, grocery stores will become dry goods stores. Maybe a blacksmith in the back if 0bama gets his wish on fuel prices.
One doesn’t have to go Galt all at once. There are many ways, large and small.