My younger brother has suggested on his blog an alternative to my four-day-workweek plan. "To solve this problem, I propose a national Leisure Employment Program. 'Leper' for short. Through the Leper program socially conscious individuals...will be paid to enjoy life for all those people who are too caught up in their jobs to do so....Leper employees will even have the option of working 7 days a week, and into the wee hours of the morning if necessary." See his blog for full details.
While this would be a bold initiative, it would create too shallow a recovery that would not sustain the level of growth and increased government revenues that my plan would generate.