Good points, except: Our society hasn't really tried various working schedules to find an optimum work week for programmer productivity. The 8 hour day was an

Good points, except: Our society hasn't really tried various working schedules to find an optimum work week for programmer productivity. The 8 hour day was an achievement by the unions, down from the insane workdays during the industrialization. If it were optimized, it would have been optimized for assembly-line style manual labor.