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.