[bigbadfeline]

> make a change yourself. Start a business and try a 4 day work week. Everyone should love it according to your world view...

Back to reality, we would have 16x6 workweeks if not for government regulation. That much is not up for debate. Moving to 4x8 workweek is just a logical next step demanded by the circumstances.

[bko]

I'm pretty sure there's no law that says you can't require people to work 16x6 and plenty of bankers do that. We don't because someone else offers us better options (i.e. competition)

[int_19h]

We also don't because the law mandates overtime pay. But then for some mysterious reason we specifically exempt quite a lot of (mostly white-collar) jobs from that.