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You don't see the problem in working 16+ hours a day considering the average person needs 8 hours of sleep and needs to ingest food?

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I don't believe there are many devs in the us working a full 8 hour day.

I have children and they take up as much or more bandwidth than a second job would. I totally believe someone could work 2 dev jobs at once.

You could. You just couldn't while having a healthy amount of sleep or a life beside work. And unless the person is on drugs, I just don't believe they are actually productive 16 hours a day.

Most software engineers don’t work fully productive 8 hours a day. In my experience I’d say maybe 2-4

You don’t need to be productive for 8 hours a day in order to collect a paycheck. Often not for even a single hour.

No problem IMHO if they are a consenting adult. I wouldn't object any more than if someone wanted to run an ultramarathon or raise 5 kids.

Not for me, but your desires may different

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