Hazel

Trams for short distance, metro for medium, trains for long and high-speed for very long.

It’s trains all the way down.

River of Gods by Ian McDonald.

And probably his other books also, but I haven’t read them yet.

I don’t think it should be like that across Canada, but nobody bothers making different packagings.

(Disclaimer: not Canadian.)

the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This is a great point, one also addressed by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread. However, you’re assuming all labor meaningfully contributes to our standard of living and produces “societal achievements”. I’m not so sure about that, I have yet to see any benefit from e.g. the advertising industry.

As Kropotkin and Graeber both argue, capitalism breeds many bullshit jobs that help capital accumulation but don’t actually contribute to a better society. Transferring those workers to necessary jobs alone would allow us to work less without a meaningful loss in standard of living.

Will that get us to 4/10/10? Probably not, but I like to be a little aspirational. If you only demand a workable 40h workweek that’s all you’re getting, if that. Any further demand will simply be met with “but we already gave you what you wanted you ungrateful peasant!” :)

We probably need closer to 10hrs of sleep (e.g.).

I think a 24 hr workweek is pretty ideal, distributed as one prefers (3x8 up to 6x4), so 4hrs work per day not counting Sundays.

4/10/10 is what we should strive for in the current age I think.