“I don’t know how much money you make. But whatever it is, I wish you and everyone else would work twice as many hours and earn twice as much income. Why? With one exception (discussed below) your earning more money can’t possibly harm me. In three very important ways it will benefit me. Your higher level of spending on goods and services will almost certainly increase the market for whatever I produce. Your increased saving and investment will lead to more capital and more inventions and almost certainly allow me to produce more within an hour’s worth of work. And (not to be overlooked) with more income you are more likely to buy your own health insurance and pay for other necessities instead of expecting me to pay for them.” — John Goodman, healthcare economist
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Why don’t we all work less? Then there would be more jobs and more of a market for more minimalist living.
But that would have a direct impact on our standard of living. The more you work, the more goods and cheaper goods there are. Not to mention the direct reduction in your own standard of living.
Plus, if you sit around all day, there is no sense of accomplishment. That being eventually you get tired of doing nothing. You have will have no money because you don’t work, so you just stay at home… that gets old.