âThere arenât enough hours in a day.â There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.
The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, â8 hoursâ is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.
No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, thereâs no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. âJust wake up earlierâ âJust meal prepâ⌠these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We arenât built for this. Thereâs no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individualsâ biggest problems would simply evaporate.
