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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed — David Cain

David Cain on the 40-hour work week.

Stowe Boyd
Oct 21, 2013
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David Cain has started working in Canada again after a seven month backpacking trip of New Zealand and other far away lands, and the juxtaposition of the two ways of life leads to some interesting observations about the 40 hour work week:

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The eight-hour workday developed during the industrial revolution in Brita…

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