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If your thesis were correct, then if employers freely offered 4-day weeks for 80% pay for everyone, then no-one would take them up. I don't believe that: but

• jerf 15y ago
  "I don't believe that:" I don't either, but I think that the reasons that would occur are themselves second-order effects of what I cited, rather than the root cause. The offer would be unstable and tend to collapse back into the usual workweek, which is rather close to what has been established as the maximum amount you can work at a job sustainably. The way in which it would probably collapse is that the employer would get an offer from somebody to work the full normal workweek and the employer would tend to take it. It's difficult in a conventional employee/employer to buck the trend precisely because it comes from something fundamental to human psychology that no amount of tech is going to solve.