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dyauspitr • today at 3:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I’m going to take it a step ahead and say no one has ever wanted to work the kind of hours most people work. Left to their own devices people might work 15 hours a week but very few would voluntarily work 40-60 hours per week. It’s always been about it being a necessity for survival.


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f1yght • today at 3:43 PM

He talks about that in the article, but people did less work than they do now when all they did was survival. We are working more than people who were at subsistence levels.

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