People have worked more than 60 hours a week for hundreds of years (farmers, soldiers, ...). There's nothing normative about the 40 hour (or 38,5 hour in this c

People have worked more than 60 hours a week for hundreds of years (farmers, soldiers, ...). There's nothing normative about the 40 hour (or 38,5 hour in this country) working weeks we are used to because we grew up with them. We should worry more about getting our minds occupied with useless information. How healthy is a strict 40 hour week when 20 more hours are spent browsing the web and another 20 or more watching TV? Do we even still know what else we could do with our time? We might as well do some productive work ...