Every day there are reports of thousands of jobs disappearing because previous worker-employer arrangements are changing. Some of the drop in employment is because employers find cheaper labor elsewhere but progressively new methods of production due to technological advances and an employer enforcement of longer work hours deprives workers of employment. Rational businessmen are forced into these economies by competition and, to an extent, by greed to extract the maximum economic output from their employees and this is accepted practice although it might be damaging the the social fabric in general as unemployed people do not have the means to purchase the products of business. In the middle of the 20th century the concept was that workers would benefit from technology by receiving smaller working hours at the same pay since machines would make production cheaper and more efficient. This concept seems to have disappeared and workers are lately working longer hours at less adjusted compensation. Obviously, in extreme, this will destroy sensible society. I have no obvious solution, but it seems to me that a new sensible relationship must be established for the general benefit.

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