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by stdbrouw 4400 days ago
You're basing your assessment of reasonableness on the aesthetically pleasing properties of symmetry? :-)
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Not really. Eight hours for sleep covers almost everyone's biological requirements. It's hard to decide in what proportion to split the remaining 16. So split it 50-50 unless someone can propose something better!
That's a bafflingly unfounded and useless "suggestion!" Enormous amounts of people have been working 8 hour shifts for decades -- instead of just guessing that the status quo is probably optimal, why not ask a variety of people if they think two hours more of family/leisure/commute/exercise/learning time would be of any benefit?
More likely because Robert Owen's original slogan from 1817 has had nearly 200 years to get deeply ingrained in culture...