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Chris Murphy: “Making 40 hours enough to live so that you have free time to…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Senator EXPOSES The "6 Cults" Controlling American Life (w/ Chris Murphy)

Published | Video Starts at 06:44

And that involves breaking up the big corporations so that small businesses in your downtown are healthy again, regulating the technology purposefully, helping those institutions that have become weaker become healthier. Making 40 hours enough to live so that you have free time to put down those roots. That rootlessness that people feel is a choice that we've made, a choice that in part is derived from government decisions and we could just choose differently. (06:44–06:52)

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Asserts that reducing work hours could help people engage more with their communities.

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