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Another method to cut the unemployment down is to reduce the number of working day per week.

This is no news. Many affluent countries have been doing this for decades - "to improve the quality of life of our people". Quite right. After all, human civilization first came from agriculture, which spared the time to obtain food for many people, so that they could develop music, literature, and science.

Of course our ingenious government has another creative use of this trick - to become a means of expanding the number civil servant. (Well, this is in itself a marvellous strategy to bring down unemployment - have more people by yourself, rather than relying on the ever declining local industry !)

The worrying bit is: creatures in Pluto want to have it for doctors and nurses - both with too many posts but no one to fill. "We can keep these people by improving their quality of life." Jove, they must have not heard of Zhuangzi's (莊子) story of teaching monkeys (朝三暮四): The amount of work remains the same, the number of people has not changed (limited by supply), this system would not reduce the workload for any one of them - the task merely becomes fragmented.

Or are they really intelligent beings and have already thought of all these ? We are seeing increasing number of medical students soon !

Empire !

PS. You may wonder why I said "teaching" monkeys. Would it not be "cheating" monkeys ? Friends, "teach" and "cheat" actually have the same alphabets. It just depends on how you see (or use) it.