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Daylight Savings Time Is A Reinforcement That American Government Feels The Need To Control Us Only When It Affects Productivity.
The idea for this debate stemmed from another complaining about daylights savings time. I responded by commenting on the creation of day lights savings time. Daylight savings time was created around world war 1 to increase the available hours of productivity. So does that say that the American government only feels the need to intervene when productivity suffers.
 hmd  11 Mar 2008 01:35
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I'm mainly posting, because I honestly can't believe that anyone would vote against the statements that you are making. I think that you are absolutely correcting in all of the arguments that you are making. But I would also like to and some more reasons. If you look to the states that abide by daylight savings time, which is the east and west coast. You will see that the midwest doesn't have to recognize DST, because the primary source of jobs within this region are farmers and it doesn't affect their level of productivity.

But also the emergence of the profit motive continues to be the main criterion for showing progress and success, which makes it easy for the goverment to want to increase our "productivity".
 
 DowpE1  31 Mar 2008 10:31
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 Thank you for the compliment. I was unaware that the midwest did not follow Day Lights Savings Time. However, over time I have come to feel that Day Light Savings Time has become a necessary evil. Realistically , if the government didn't regulate it, businesses would still open that hour earlier or later to get an edge up, right?
by  hmd
 20 May 2008 15:52
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I don't think i understand the argument, since electricity and lights, productivity can go on 24/7. Daylight savings wouldn't effect productivity...would it? I thought it was to conserve energy, by reducing the need for lights. All the states follow daylight savings time except Arizona, as far as business hours. I guess Arizona isn't concerned about conserving energy. I do agree that the gov't loves to regulate, and re-regulate, and over regulate. But i don't think daylight savings time is a good example of it.
 
 Driver  11 May 2008 03:31
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 Hmm....interesting point. I hadn't considered that they created Day Lights Savings time to conserve energy because I had typed this debate after my 11th grade history class, where they had taught that day lights savings time was specifically created during WW1 to aide in the productivity of wartime goods. But you could be correct. The question that remains in my mind is why then? If there had been no world war that demanded the constant unified production, wold we still be sleeping in? Let me know what you think.
by  hmd
 20 May 2008 15:57
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There are other rationales used; when Franklin first thought of the idea, it was to save on candle wax (which could get pretty expensive).
I certainly wouldn't want the government intervening in every situation, but I think the reasoning behind most intervention is economic. While productivity does influence economics, there are tons of other factors that the government must consider before intervening.
 
 Moegreche  11 Mar 2008 02:44
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 Yes but Franklin simply thought of the idea, the government didn't choose to adopt the policy as law until it affected productivity.
And the government has limited interference in the economy but it does, sometimes beautifully(i.e. child labor laws) regulate actions when it comes down to productivity.
by  hmd
 12 Mar 2008 15:14
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