"everyone should work 80 hrs a week, or they're lazy" no they shouldn't. human beings are not slaves that you can command around like automatons. we're not numbers on a screen, integers in a codebase. the end goal of a society is not a higher stock price, or fatter net income margins. the goal of a society is a preservation of the culture, ideals and traditions that it holds, and the continuation of those into the future. the top 1% obsessed autist engineers, cracked founders, and narcissistic surgeons can go ahead and work 80hrs a week- sacrifice family and health for their work. have at it. the rest of society, whose goals are not making $200K in sales a year or seeing how many employee of the month awards they can stack up, should not work this much. 99% should be focused on building their health, creating families, education, and self improvement. there is a certain nobility in the common man. don't forget who fights the wars, who digs the ditches, and who carries the trash.