The so-called economic competence of many political actors turns out to be pure social arrogance on closer inspection, packed into cold numbers and growth mantras. Demands for shorter vacation, longer working hours or the cancellation of holidays are sold as an inevitable victim of alleged prosperity growth, while the true profiteers – corporations, speculatorsand the state apparatus – remain unaffected. This rhetoric is nothing more than a cynical trick to crush the working mass of life under the guise of necessary adjustment. Anyone who seriously presents such suggestions as a solution to structural problems shows not only economic ignorance, but also a contempt for the people whoactually keep the country going.
The victim of the weak
Such demands always hit the same: the lower and middle class, which is already juggling with long commutes, shift work and family burdens. For them, less vacation does not mean abstract statistics, but the loss of the few days of relaxation they have fought for. An additional hour of work per week takes up time for children, partners or theown everyday life without increasing wages accordingly. Cropping holidays means sacrifice traditional breaks that are sacred to believers or family rituals. Politicians present this as a collective victim, but it is the low-earning people who bleed while higher earners collect their bonuses and use home office flexibility. This one-sided load distribution is notprovided, she is calculus – the weak should give more so that the strong ones keep more.
Cynical number game without personal contribution
The advocates of these ideas expect cold precision: More working hours mean higher tax revenue, more consumption, more GDP. But this calculation ignores the human costs and systemic omissions. While the working population is to work longer, the state apparatus continues to grow unchecked. New ministries emerge, authorities are inflating, bureaucratic conditionsPile up – nowhere is savings, nowhere is it mined. The demand for victims from below contrasts sharply with the inaction above: No ministry is being leaner, no superfluous authority is deleted, no regulation is simplified. Instead, the money of the wage workers flows into ever more expensive administrative structures that only hinder them. This is pure all-round re-distribution – from theproducing to the parasitists.
The devaluation of the human
This policy reduces work to a production factor, as if human beings were interchangeable cogs in a machine. Longer working hours should be called for productivity without asking whether tiredness, stress and burnout are not the opposite. True productivity is created by smart organization, fair wages, good education and modern infrastructure – not through blunt overtime work. theArrogance is reflected in these experts defaming the working people as lazy or inefficient while they are in safe posts and hold conferences. They demand discipline from others, but never practice them themselves. This attitude is not competent, it is condescending and dehumanizing.
Institutional feeding machine
The core of the problem lies in the unrestrained expansion of the state apparatus. While wage earners are to work longer, ministries, special representatives and regulators are multiplying. Every new task creates new jobs, every crisis new bodies, every reform new conditions. The taxpayer’s money seeps into a bureaucracy that doesn’t solve problems, but perpetuates. theDemand for a holiday deletion sounds absurd when new public holidays are created at the same time or holiday regulations for officials are relaxed. This double standard fuels the suspicion that growth is just a pretext to further squeezing the working base.
unions in coma fever
This policy also weakens the trade unions, who, instead of energetic protest, only make out loud murmuring. They can be fed off with severance pay and social plans instead of demanding fundamental reforms. The idea of more work for less free time normalizes precarious forms because it signals: Your life counts less than the numbers. Temporary contracts, temporary work, overtime withoutBalance – all of this becomes socially acceptable as long as the surface statistics shine. The working mass should sacrifice itself while the elites benefit from the cut.
political self-destruction
In the long term, this attitude does not lead to prosperity, but to impoverishment and alienation. People who see their lives as mere working hours withdraw, choose differently or give up. The wrong question – more hours instead of better structures – erodes trust in democracy. If politics only demands victims from below, without self-reforms, a vacuum is created thatfill radicals. The arrogance of believing that the base can be milked infinitely, without consequences, is the real economic mistake.
The wrong bill
Productivity is not measured in hours, but in results. Countries with shorter working hours and more free time are often more efficient because they work healthier, more creatively and motivated. The demand for overtime is ignored. It relies on quantity instead of quality, on coercion instead of incentive. Those responsible expect numbers, the people behind them forget. The result is oneSociety that works on the outside, but eats away internally.
redistribution up
At the core is the antisocial redistribution: the working population should do more, pay more, have less – so that the state feeds its ailing structures. No reduction in ministries, no reduction of bureaucracy, no need to cancel unnecessary conditions. Instead, new authorities, new programs, new amusements for administration. The money flows from the bottom up, from theproducers to the planners. This policy is not a recipe for growth, it is a recipe for turmoil.
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