“People will need to be paid more for working less time, so they can afford more leisure time.” - Richard Branson giving a glimpse into the actuarial world of the super-rich, where leisure is doled out to peasants for productivity reasons.
This also pisses me off. We can only have things to be "more productive." If we always had this attitude then we'd never have the weekend.
I imagine its the most politically acceptable way to sell this argument. "Sure, we're all going home at 3, but hey, the businesses still make money so why not?"
I suspect management's ancient ideas of "meetings" and "face time" are killing this little revolution. A lot of middle managers are little more than meetings bullshitters and cutting their main value is going to scare them.
I only have 2 super rich(1M+/yr) in my life, and they are always working. I only see them during holidays and the occasional grad party.
Their son told me that his dad worked so many hours that he totaled 2 cars in a week due to sleep deprivation.
Maybe second generation is lazy, but I'm not sure where this idea that 'super rich' dont work come from.
Seems like the trend in the US is for lower and middle classes working more hours and having less to show for it: https://www.epi.org/publication/ib348-trends-us-work-hours-w...