"If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sens

"If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization." [0] This is - I think - an arbitrary question. What is "sane" in this context is simply what's culturally normative: it varies from place to place, and has no practical or logical reason for being set at any certain number other than the cultural history of that place and happenstance. People are very good at adapting to and becoming comfortable with what is considered normative. [0] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html