<story><title>&apos;It&apos;s better for humans in general&apos;: The 4-day workweek is closer than you think</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/its-better-for-humans-in-general-the-four-day-workweek-is-closer-than-you-think-b85cc39e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I find it odd that everyone here is talking about productivity. Although I guess it&amp;#x27;s to be expected since posts about increasing productivity are popular in HN; lots of people here focusing on their careers I suppose.&lt;p&gt;Personally I find we work way too many hours. We spend the good part of 5 days a week (if we&amp;#x27;re lucky) at work, often literally all the daylight hours, at least in winter. I have to take my daughter very early in the morning to the nursery, then I can&amp;#x27;t see her until the evening.&lt;p&gt;I want to believe that future generations will look back and find this unconceivable, and I hope AI shows us the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so internalised that people gatekeep working long and hard...&lt;p&gt;I assume the &amp;quot;commute -&amp;gt; work -&amp;gt; chill -&amp;gt; sleep&amp;quot; cycle is doing a lot of work, you basically have no time to even think about what you&amp;#x27;re doing. Add some kids, a mortgage, health issues, it&amp;#x27;s the perfect cocktail. The &amp;quot;work -&amp;gt; vacation&amp;quot; cycle is also a good one, you can rationalise wasting 3-6 months in a work you don&amp;#x27;t enjoy to have a few weeks of peace (and spend all your money so you have a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; reason to go back to work)&lt;p&gt;In a way it&amp;#x27;s also more pleasing to be fully invested in the rat race, once you start to want get out of it you&amp;#x27;ll hate every single second of your work week wondering where we as a specie fucked up so bad</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;It&apos;s better for humans in general&apos;: The 4-day workweek is closer than you think</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/its-better-for-humans-in-general-the-four-day-workweek-is-closer-than-you-think-b85cc39e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I find it odd that everyone here is talking about productivity. Although I guess it&amp;#x27;s to be expected since posts about increasing productivity are popular in HN; lots of people here focusing on their careers I suppose.&lt;p&gt;Personally I find we work way too many hours. We spend the good part of 5 days a week (if we&amp;#x27;re lucky) at work, often literally all the daylight hours, at least in winter. I have to take my daughter very early in the morning to the nursery, then I can&amp;#x27;t see her until the evening.&lt;p&gt;I want to believe that future generations will look back and find this unconceivable, and I hope AI shows us the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>People spend all their lives doing pointless work, accumulating wealth, then have nothing to spend it on so buy something like a car they don&amp;#x27;t need (like an SUV).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s odd there aren&amp;#x27;t more people questioning this. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t they rather enjoy their lives while they&amp;#x27;re young and not worry about having tons of disposable income when they&amp;#x27;re old?&lt;p&gt;I guess there&amp;#x27;s something about security that drives people to the latter. Also I feel like there&amp;#x27;s an addiction and&amp;#x2F;or conditioning element to it. I think people are scared of what will happen if certain people (thick people) no longer have to work. What will they do during the day etc?</text></comment>