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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The average workweek in the netherlands is 25 hours. Yet they have the highest per-capita GDP of any country.

So they make more, in less time. Not just more per hour. But more total. And that's an extra 15 hours a week to do as you please. Productivity decreases when people are made to work excessively. It's just a fact.

I wonder when we will applying this understanding to the US medical system. Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, and then we have medical professionals working 60 hours a week, or 16 hour shifts, and wondering why so many mistakes are being made. It doesn't make sense. There's so much evidence working 25-30 hours a week is optimal, both from a health perspective AND a productivity perspective.

So the only reason someone would want work beyond that many hours per week, is because they're control freaks, or they don't understand the facts about reality. And when we do it on a scale of hundreds of millions of people, I have to wonder if we're being set up to fail. This overworked way of existing that most people accept as normal, makes no sense.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're called bean counters for a reason.