This assumes that we value leisure over status, a prosperous future, living in a nice house, and putting our kids through good schools. We work 60 hour weeks be

This assumes that we value leisure over status, a prosperous future, living in a nice house, and putting our kids through good schools. We work 60 hour weeks because if we don't someone will work them instead of us, and we'll be part of the hollowed out middle class whose prospects are worse than their parents. Basically you can have time or you can have money, but not both.