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If technology has freed up so much time overall, then the people overall should not have to work so many hours. Instead, capitalism has ensured that rather than more time, we have more things to buy so we must continue to work 40 hours or more a week.
Yeah, the possibility of working and getting paid extra for the extra day really exploits the way our brain works