I'd say there's nothing wrong even if you're paid for 40 hours a week in each of these jobs. The reason for that is quite simple: I am not a slave and my lifesp

I'd say there's nothing wrong even if you're paid for 40 hours a week in each of these jobs. The reason for that is quite simple: I am not a slave and my lifespan is not infinite. If you tell me "I will need you 40 hours a week" but then it turns out you actually need 20 hours of my time a week I am not going to waste these 20 hours because life is too short for this kind of foolishness. I could tell you that I'm done after these 20 hours, but if my 20 hour output already matches the average output for that position then why should I? What is in there for me? Most likely I am not going to be rewarded for picking more work anyway, I will just work harder and that's it. Why bother if there's no incentive to work harder? I might as well prioritize myself and my finances as opposed to provide above-average value to someone who will never reward me for doing so. If I was running a business and I would manage to effectively double my income I would be praised and pointed to as an example of a successful person. Yet if I do the same as an employee all of the sudden there's tons of problems around it. Why should I let myself be worse-off than a random company? Why should I willingly choose to earn less if I can earn more?