3x8 is when most of life stops revolving very heavily around selling your time to do what other people who have money tell you to, and anything else whatsoever

3x8 is when most of life stops revolving very heavily around selling your time to do what other people who have money tell you to, and anything else whatsoever has a chance to become the main thing a normal person dedicates their life/time to in their prime years. That's the point at which we've really made it as a culture, IMO, and that's why even 4x8 is flawed (but a huge step in the right direction!) 4x10, as in TFA, isn't progress but just shifting things around. It's not a revolution, it's not new, and it doesn't change things in any interesting ways, IMO. Maybe it's a baby-step to 4x8? I dunno. However, rather than messing with any of this (right now) I'd prefer that we drastically cut back who counts as "exempt" for the purposes of overtime, and fake "contractors" (actually full time workers) that are widespread all over the economy, et c. That seems like a solid step 1. Whole sections of the economy aren't even doing what's nominally "full time" now, but more. More hours should be on the table, but only at a significant premium so companies aren't free to just demand it for nothing, and workers should be free to refuse it (so that they have to offer enough that the "yes" is an actual "yes"). That way they only use it when they need it—you know, leverage market forces to do something good. Also, I'd call out fixing healthcare and broadening coverage of anti-noncompete and pro-moonlighting laws to the entire country as vital if we want these changes to reduced-full-time-work to be an economic benefit, not hindrance. That'll make entrepreneurship or side-hustles far more accessible to people who want something resembling a normal life (having a family, for instance) and also aren't trust-fund kids or otherwise damn lucky, but who want to sell something they are fully responsible for and are choosing to do. Something would also need to be done about current part-time workers, who suffer from a different "working too many hours" problem than white-collar folks (i.e. multiple jobs out of necessity). Much higher minimum wages (or, if we want to go farther, UBI) might be on the table. In general I think enhancing the market signaling power of the large bulk of the populace that's not doing so great now, could only help make our economy healthier and more robust—much of the point of having a market economy is to efficiently provide things people want, right? That would also go hand-in-hand with opening up time & opportunity for entrepreneurship. There'd be some challenges involved (the effect on real estate prices is absolutely the #1 concern, but, like... that's already going poorly, so we already need to find a way to stop that) but I don't think they're insurmountable.