A Free Time “Party”? – Zer0 H0urs (wordpress.com)

Someone has suggested a single-issue party---or movement---to reduce the workweek. They lay out the benefits at the end:

"A “Free-Time Party” would be exactly that. “Free-Time And Nothing Else!”

The benefits are as such:

1.) Higher wages without the necessity of State spending or expansion of welfare programs;

2.) Acceleration and development of the productive forces (but, more importantly, unwanted and uncontrollable development; unobstructable by the State);

3.) Absorption of the “superfluous army of labor” back into the workforce, increasing bargaining power and putting less downward pressure on wages; less competition between the workers (and thus some reconciliation of political enmity);

4.) As productivity rises, and less capital is lent to the State and plied into productive activity, the State’s ability to prop up prices diminishes, a cheapening of commodities and essential goods ensues (deflation);

5.) Less reliance on the State—in the form of welfare or wage-subsidies, and, perhaps more importantly, with more free-time humans can learn to self-govern and replace some of the functions the State has domain over;

6.) Better health outcomes (less stress, more time to exercise, self-development, socialization/higher forms of activity, family time, religious and community involvement, etc.)

7.) Just as society (the State) were forced to recognize the productive forces as social, free-time begins to assert itself through the General Intellect, unencumbered by its constitution by capital as “species general capacity,” towards a completely new organization of activity; the law of value ceases to determine labor distribution/organization;

8.) Further creation of disposable time as necessity is usurped by freedom (i.e., basic needs are met with such little human energy that the remaining sum can be devoted towards choice);

9.) Consequently, this diverts much of the pain and suffering of the transformation of society to capital, not the social producers (I say much because I think reducing hours of labor needs to be coupled with other measures like reduced social spending, maybe negative interest rates, and gutting of public sector employees, not just private)."