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		satvikpendem 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world could run on older hardware if software ... Indeed, and I don't know why people keep saying that we ever thought the 20 hour workweek was feasible, because there is always more work to be done. Work expands to fill the constraints available, similar to Parkinson's Law.

immibis 3 months ago [–]

Probably because the 40-hour workweek was feasible.

It became feasible because back when the workweek was "whenever you're not asleep", a lot of people set a lot of things on fire until it wasn't.

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