I’d rather smack myself in the face repeatedly with a boat oar than live in a tiny house.

The details might be challenging but the basic story is simple: Your working 60 hour weeks, to the degree it is financially motivated, is not virtuous but imposes huge negative externalities through competition onto the rest of us. We should tax the fuck out of it. https://t.co/B4QJWg3Y3c

— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) April 26, 2019

I think a 25 hour workweek is ideal for productivity. Beyond that, companies should be taxed for any worker they require beyond that time. Say, a flat tax of $10,000 for every 10 worker-hours beyond that maximum.

Most people’s productivity dives precipitously after 4-5 hours. That’s just human nature. And forty hours a week is really too enervating and time-consuming.

I tend to give some people bad vibes because I am hyper-alert. I can’t help it. You try having redneck bullies kick your ass for years and see what your alertness level gets set at.

Anyway, I like being always alert. I don’t actually like relaxing. Perhaps I am just accustomed to it. Nevertheless, relaxing is not relaxing to me.