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The two problems as I see it:

- A leap week is worse than a leap year. 7 days of birthdays that just don’t exist most years.

- No variety in day of week for your birthday. I know it’s just a cultural thing, but always celebrating a birthday on say a Tuesday sounds depressing to me.

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Also the excessive variability of being paid monthly but having only 4 weeks of expenses vs 5 the next would be a challenge.

I assume if the entire world is spending billions of dollars reworking culture, infrastructure, software, etc., that swapping to making weekly pay the norm is just a bit of noise in that transition.

I wonder what the gamification effect would be if we paid everything by the second. I think for example transitioning from social support to employment would be more attractive.

Switching everything to any other system all at once would indeed be a huge waste of money.

That doesn't work for people who are on commission.

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