Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The 40-Hour Week Is About To Change Forever" video.

IKR, I'm fortunate enough to live 3 blocks from where I work and being able to commute in only 10 minutes each way means that I'm only spending roughly an hour and a half a week commuting rather than the more typical 10 hours that people spend.
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The main reason that it hasn't happened is that you've got rentseekers jacking up the prices on apartments and bosses that insist on making the poors show up to work for 40 hours a day, even though it's pretty well-established that few people actually work during all that time with some companies having a lot of slacking off just to fill out the time.
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@stainlesssteellemming Which is why we should have minimum wages that are tailored closer to regional costs of living rather than state and national costs of living. In both cases, it does little to keep the areas affordable to the poorest and is commonly tied with insufficient welfare benefits to make up the difference. Ideally, minimum wage + welfare should result in people having a decent standard of living, but in practice both tend to be too cheap to allow for that.
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It may also be a company that's run by incompetent management that was forced to allow remote work.
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@JustSomeDinosaurPerson Yes, unfortunately, a lot of these reductions in work hours schemes really only work for jobs where being there 40 hours is a lot less of a convenience. The ones where the reduction in hours would make the biggest reduction in human suffering, are the ones that will probably never see those cuts.
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@rosepainting8775 Yes, although if the hours wind up being cut back to 20 to 30 hours, that opens up a lot of time to socialize outside of work. And that doesn't even include the time wasted on commuting.
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It depends what you're doing, but I know that at my job, 6 hours is about the point where I start getting tired and have a hard time keeping up with the earlier pace.
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