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Lumifer comments on question: the 40 hour work week vs Silicon Valley? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Florian_Dietz 24 October 2014 12:09PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 October 2014 04:49:29PM 8 points [-]

This is a theory that has been around for a hundred years

Do note that a hundred years ago workers performed mostly physical labor and estimates of physical endurance do not have to be similar to estimates of mental endurance.