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Does this case warrant the recoil?



I'd argue it does. Deserve as mentioned in the parent implies some sort of generally accepted human 'right'.

The length of the work day/ work week is fairly arbitrary and definitely up for debate, there are great arguments that actually a three day working week would make far more sense [1].

Imo describing a simple convention in terms of deserve discourages debate and so should be avoided. Something broader such as `a human being deserves not to have to work every waking hour to live` would have been more acceptable as it separates the underlying principle from arbitrary conventions.

[1] http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours




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