Timesizing, Not Downsizing

Timesizing_® not downsizing
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homepage.

Timesizing means upsizing markets by downsizing
the workweek,
not the workforce
& consumer base.

Check out our
time trilogy.

This website deals with the least discussed human priority, full employment. The urgent shift from quantity to quality begins here. We give everyone more of the most fundamental and basic freedom, free time (and more money to make it quality time). This website articulates the dominant paradigm and redesigns it. It is THE website for postmodern economics or more informatively, worktime economics and its successors. We also articulate the prerequisite questions, which job-dialect to use (a mix of economese and ecologese) and which order of attack on the megaproblems is best.
We address the two biggest questions of our times: (1) When introducing technology, how, without makework, can CEOs maximize the consumer base & avoid downsizing employees & the consumer markets they support? (Bonus question: Is there some way to check inflation without checking growth by raising interest rates?) (2) How do we then shift from maximizing consumption to save the economy, to minimizing consumption to save the planet? (And taboo urquestion that must not be discussed or asked or mentioned or even thought: How do we stop the concentration of income & wealth from proceeding beyond the point where it starts undermining itself?)
Two answers, two 'gears': (1) Timesizing = switch from trimming the workforce and the consumer base to trimming the workweek as long as unemployment is too high or wages are too low; make self-support easier, not taxpayer-support and charity, and – very important – automatically convert overtime into training and jobs. (2) Once everyone is included in the worksharing system, GDP growth becomes optional instead of desperately needed, because for the first time, growth can be limited without starving the now well-employed 'poor' and clobbering the consumer base (and the economy that's based on it). So then we can cut the workweek further to downshift production & consumption and save the planet without killing the economy. (And then, based on this work-balancing program, we design programs to balance money.)
Use this website for worst-case planning, economic design, and news on the current economic "recovery" as spun by both Right and Left, critiqued from the 3rd way viewpoint of a student of ecology, linguistics and history.

Today, as the depression-breeding 1920s replay, we bring -

hope du jour

tm / doom du jourtm
Sporadic updates continue on our archives page now we've secured a base in Canada & shifted from tracking current events to clarifying the Timesizing vision (here's what we're working on now we've paused daily updates).
Why a base in Canada? because with the "election" of Nov/2004, the USA fundamentally changed – it went from ducking the good witch of democracy in the pond of unreformed campaign finance to holding her head under with single-party designed&manufactured voting machines. To avoid disaster, the Democrats need to exert focused and unrelenting pressure on the neo-con White House to enact audit trails for US elections, ditch the thousands of rigged voting machines & divest from their manufacturers, Diebold, ES&S and Hart InterCivic (but how likely is all that?). The best overview of the slow-motion coup currently in progress in the one-time Leader of the Free World is Naomi Wolf's "End of America," which outlines the ten steps paranoid cliques always take in destroying democracies. Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" focuses on the first of those steps, and google "North American Union" about a possible eleventh step.

Features: • missed recent hope/doom du jour? check out past hopes/dooms du jour
• bibliography • site map • links • time trilogy: • vol.I • vol.II • vol.III • the big question
• makework • lost key to small government vs: • 30-hr. bill • business 'cycles' • courses
New features - class in America, growing disparity, worst case plan, economic design

Timesizing means full employment without makework or inflation.

How? By adjusting the workweek down & up - instead of firing & hiring - based on a comprehensive blueprint for a green economy & a new worktime economics where, 100 years from now, people will be...

repeating our basic economic slogan - "No Overtime Alone!" - in other words, if you opt for overtime, you make sure the skill bottleneck behind it gets opened up by mentoring a trainee

asking one another, "What's the workweek this month?" - in other words, work pressures are dynamically shared as incoming technology cuts their duration but boosts their stress

accommodating workoholics while blocking inflation, by unleashing "love to work" incentive (deflationary) while capping the money motive (inflationary), & balancing the two

For nearly six years (1999-2004), we at the Timesizing Wire have tracked what's rancid beneath the "recovery" via America's top two newspapers, the Wall Street Journal on the right & the New York Times on the left (often from *Wainwright Bank reading room in hip Davis Square, Somerville, Mass.), with occasional input from the London Economist on the right & the Boston Globe on the left. We pick up timesizing stories wherever we find them, but mainly from Google News and mainly thanks to Ken Ellis on New Bedford, Mass.
Timesizing’s 3rd way is centrist and deep green, not just light or pinkish green like the Green Party's grocery list of ad hoc, unintegrated & unprioritized issues. Timesizing satisfies the right with smaller government and bigger firmer markets & the left with a simpler stronger social safety net that makes the right clean up their own recessions instead of continuously inducing them by privatizing and concentrating profits & nationalizing and centrifuging losses. Our Timesizing solution is based on working models, American history (especially 1933 ), on economic design, on ecology, and on worktime economics, linguistics, Limits to Growth, and Buckminster Fuller. The deep green center is the future, and we strategize for the next 100-1000 years, not just the next three months (quarterly report) or four years (U.S. presidential term). And we are always and everywhere under construction, & asterisked links take you *outside our site.

the problem, vs.		the timesizing solution
(in deteriorating stages)		(in stepped enhancements)
long workweek; short vacation	clue 1	electronic democracy vs PACs & lobbyists
biz downsizing; govt makework		market reinvestment vs corporate welfare
takeovers; bankruptcy; prison	clue 2	job&wage insurance vs gov't jobs programs
unemployment; homelessness		geared to problem vs emotional guesswork
forced retirement; disability	clue 3	plugging leaks vs Stinnes and Malthus
suicides; headlines from hell		transitions vs abrupt cures worse than disease

Pie in the sky? Click on Design Solutions for rebuttals of Impractical! Unconstitutional! Socialist! Uncompetitive! Inflationary! Anti-small business! Lump of Labor Fallacy!... And did we mention the Working Models?

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Bibliography | Audiences | Research Priorities | Phil's Bio
Politics |The Forgotten Republican Key to Small Government | Sayings
Investment Advice | Why should I be forced to stop work at a certain #hrs/wk?!
America's Massive Pervasive Makework | Letting off steam | Opus Errata
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