[jackvalentine]

The way I see it all work should be sufficient if worked standard fulltime 38-45 hours a week for a person to survive with some free time to better themselves with.

The alternative is people working huge numbers of hours just to survive and having no time to improve their situation, becoming trapped in a cycle of endless low-end jobs and poverty. You can't actually upskill if you spend 12-16 hours a day working dead-end jobs.