existentialgoof

It's easy to see how the 4 day week with reduced hours can be rolled out across so-called white collar jobs, where the same level of productivity can be squeezed into a shorter amount of time. However, I work in a call centre, and I cannot handle the same number of calls in 32 hours as I would in 40 hours. I am fortunate that my employer has allowed me to go to a 4 day week, albeit a condensed 4 day week.

My question to you, is whether you foresee that the 4 day week is going to open up a class-based divide, and the attendant resentments of such, as free time potentially becomes the luxury of the middle classes (rather than a fundamental human right), or do you think that a standard 4 day work week with reduced hours is a right that could be expanded to blue collar jobs as well, without loss of pay?

Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for answering, and it it is good to see someone doing research into the benefits of the 4 day work week.

The issue with applying the concept of anosognosia to mental illness is that psychiatric disorders are not usually (and usually cannot be) diagnosed using objective evidence in the first place, but based on a subjective standard of how their behaviour or their mood deviates from what is deemed to be normal.

This means that the diagnosis, once rendered, is unfalsifiable, because the doctor rather than the patient who is presumed (but not proven to be) mentally incompetent will be the person in that scenario who has all the credibility.

Anosognosia can be used to tell someone who is just a bit dissatisfied with life (likely for very understandable reasons) that they are suffering from depression and therefore their perception is distorted. So it is a useful tool of political oppression. When people start to find that life isn't living up to their standards, it is easy to just say that all of those people are mentally ill and this is distorting their perception, as opposed to this being evidence that something needs to change.

It can easily be used against individuals for malicious purposes, as in the example below, in addition to many example's in Rob's excellent book:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/29/2131793/-Delta-paid-a-doctor-to-declare-a-pilot-mentally-ill-after-she-spoke-up-She-just-won-big-in-court