qroshan

Basically, like all great craftsmen, you give a lot of flux instead of zero flux

If you look at 2006 and 1999 numbers, it was absolutely fantastic.

Rule #1: GDP and Employment report are backward looking.

Also, (predicted) GDP for Q3 and Q4 is 1.x%. That is thin waters

Actually with excess capacity (which the US currently have), you can print money and give it to people just like Airlines print Airmiles and gives it away.

The most important thing Libertarians miss is they assume "Money as the Constraint". It is Time/Resources that are constraints. In an excess capacity world, resource is not a constraint which leaves Time. Money is just a grease facilitating exchange.

Food Stamps have the greatest ROI for govt.

is there any proof to this?

Chinese companies already work 6-days a week and have crushed many a lazy European companies.

openAI with it's in-office culture have crushed many a remote-first AI companies.

A 6-day week will crush a 5-day a week company. But, we have a culture of 5-day week. It's hard to change. So, it's hard a build a 6-day week company, but 5-day week absolutely.

That's also the difference between progressives and capitalists. Captialists are realists, while progressives are pie-in-the-sky people