John Donvan
speaker
2,077 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Sep
John Donvan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want them to have money.
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I want them to have leisure time.
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I want them to have money to buy cars and leisure time to buy cars, among other things.
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And he did it definitely with a note of self-interest.
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And then it took another 15, 16 years for legislation to be passed to make it a thing.
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Do you see, Juliette,
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You know, the examples that you're citing of these companies that are already moving in that direction, having that kind of persuasive power that the Ford example did, and then taking it to Congress, as Joanne is saying, would be necessary to make it real.
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Do you see, in your 10-year horizon, Congress actually mandating a four-day workweek?
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Let me let Joanne back into the conversation to make the case why the failure of those big companies is really important here.
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Joanne, I sensed your answer when you said they're at a competitive disadvantage.
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You meant in regard to their customers, that their customers want them to be there five days a week.
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Maybe I didn't understand you.
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Yes, thank you for that clarity.
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Because Juliette is pushing back and saying they're at a competitive advantage.
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in terms of being able to employ people and keep people.
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Julia, with Joanne's clarification that the competitive disadvantage she was talking about was in regard to being able to, with customers and providing services four days a week instead of five.
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How do you respond to that analysis of competitive disadvantage?
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many of
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That was the Henry Ford model, wasn't it, 100 years ago, that he said, you can work one day less and we're not going to change your pay.
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