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I don't think the average working week has declined in the last 20's years and a lot of salaried workers work unpaid over time now.


An interesting hypothesis, but even that hasn't been observed to be true: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG

In the '90s, the increase in income was partially attributable to employees putting in more hours every year, whereas in the recent boom working hours per employee were effectively constant.

So the in the 2010's, income growth wasn't just bigger, it was of higher quality -> https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1308790402082766849

Finally, the number of hours of the working week is irrelevant in the context of the "number of hours required to buy X" metric.




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