Alan Simpson: Greens four day week is a great idea - if your job is pointless IMAGINE a scenario in the future where everyone gets paid a full-time wage to do absolutely no work at all.

IMAGINE a scenario in the future where everyone gets paid a full-time wage to do absolutely no work at all.

It sounds great, but would probably get a bit boring after a while – there is only so much time you can spend on a beach reading, playing golf or abseiling down a very tall building while blindfolded.

I do the latter of those every weekend and it is an absolute hoot, I can tell you.

Work is one of those things that the vast majority of us do, and if we think about it long enough then we would probably admit that we actually enjoy our jobs.

Sometimes anyway.

Working can be very stressful of course, but overall it is undeniable that being employed is much better for your health and wellbeing than being on the dole.

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But working less for the same money........

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