If you can figure out how to make a comfortable living working sixty hours a week, I can tell you how to make one working thirty hours a week: take the sixty ho

If you can figure out how to make a comfortable living working sixty hours a week, I can tell you how to make one working thirty hours a week: take the sixty hour job and work thirty hours on it. Thirty hours of actual productive work instead of staring blearily at your screen, compulsively refreshing e-mail because you're too tired to do anything more useful, and botching work that will have to be redone next week, in between redoing work you botched last week. Seriously, this should not be a matter for debate anymore. We know humans evolved for something like a twenty hour working week, and cannot productively do more than thirty, maybe forty at most, on any job more demanding than repetitively putting component A into widget B - and those jobs are mostly done by robots nowadays. Useless sacrifice is not cool or heroic. It's just useless.