People are afraid to admit that we should be doing something different because it means those doing the old thing are unethical or wrong. This is not true because our actions have many different counterbalancing effects, harming one group but helping another. There is no 'perfect action'.
At the most basic level working fewer hours means we could share jobs, reducing unemployment. But it has many other effects...
Helps the poor: shifts national income back to workers from corporate profits; less crime; can afford health care and housing.
Helps the rich: fewer attacks on children; less boredom; 'having it all' — a career and time for children
We, the undersigned, demand that the Obama Administration support this solution to gun violence and unemployment.
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