The 40 hour work week is what many people strive for because it is associated with consistency and a solid job, but is 40 hours a week..8 hours a day 5 days a week with 2 days off ideal? Working a 9 to 5 means only having a few hours a day to yourself other than working or getting ready for work or driving to work and only 2 days off per week. This is quite a lot but is there a way to work less but without decreasing pay? Yes. In America there is a huge inequality of income. Some people work a few hours a week and make millions a year and some people work 60 hours a week and make 15k a year. This inequality is generally not due to the wealthier person having some innate quality or working 10000 times harder than the poorer person. The inequality is due to flaws in our economy and society which allows some people , due to circumstance or accident, to be super wealthy while others are super poor. This happens due to flaws in the system and the way things work. Idely everyone should work 20 hours a week and make enough to thrive but in America 10% of the population owns the majority o the wealth. There is only so much money in the system and if 10 people out of 100 own own 80% of the wealth then 90% of the people are left to fight over an increasingly small amount of income. Where does this lead? Increases poverty, increased unemployment, increased dissatisfaction, increased crime, increased conflict and suffering.
