LogFAQs > #913687275

It's true, anyone arguing in favor of the current 40 hour work week is just plain wrong, and you poor saps putting in 70+ hours just aren't getting to live life. Life is meant to be enjoyed, not spent at work. Work to live not live to work.

Yes somewhere there is a NEET smiling at how right they are, but take away the pathetic life of a NEET for a minute and you will see they are not altogether wrong in their analysis of the pitfalls of the 40 hour work week, which isn't even 40 hours when factoring in traffic and limits you place on your home life to insure you can go back out to work the next morning.

It's only designed to be 40 hours a week to trick people into spending all their leisure time on entertainment. The idea being back in the day, why make fancy cars for everyone if no one has time to use them.

Then of course, technology was supposed to make work more efficient yet we are still stuck in the mode of "logged hours".

It should be quality of work, not quantity.

One other big problem is when you work so much you get diminishing returns in terms of output.