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Hear hear! One quibble though: it’s not quite true that the market demands this. We, the people, consumers and producers alike, are the market. The market here is constrained to the 40hr work week by a multitude of regulations and assumptions codified into law, affecting everything from full/part time work status to preferential tax treatment to labor laws. Many of these laws are design innocent enough but they happened to be designed in the context of a 40hr work week being paramount. That assumption, now cast in steel, is now inflexible to more modern needs and demands.

Those wishing to change the status quo should seek to end tax treatment of employer provided healthcare, reform of overtime wage rules, reform payroll taxes, and overall placing freelancers, small business and independent contractors on equal footing with W2 labor.

The classic struggle of labor vs employer has been waged entirely within the context of the W2 9-to-5 employment paradigm. That entire war has been fought within the confines of a prison.