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by toomuchtodo 1364 days ago
This exemplifies why regulation is necessary to protect the whole from this mindset and philosophy. Most people don’t want to work harder or more for the same pay, and instead work to live and pay their bills; they shouldn’t get dragged by a vocal minority.

If you can arrange to work more, and get paid more for that work, I support that! Just don’t drag others down who want to live their life outside of work by advocating for workism policy, especially if you’re not getting paid more just to make someone wealthy more wealthy. What’s the point of massive multi decade productivity gains if they’re not going to the people who perform the work by way of a reduction in workweek hours?