If You Want a 4 Day Work Week, Become a Nurse

I'm sympathetic to working less. I try to do that everyday. Wasting time online reading newspapers, visiting various political blogs, and trolling craigslist for anonymous sex. Everyone does it. But at least we pretend to work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Don't fuck around with my system of coping with mundane office life by advocating switching to a 4 day work week.

And I love this anti-consumerist nut job who wrote the piece:

Reason #15 The 4 Day Work Week would provide time for a transition into the informal economy

There are a lot of reasons why consumer culture is bad for us. It focuses not on people and their relationships to one another but instead on things, on stuff, on cheap plastic crap from Mal-Wart. It’s worth pointing out that not only is our habit of consuming mass quantities of junk toxifying our lives and our environment with all sorts of chemicals and pollution, it’s also using up a number of nonrenewable resources at an alarming rate. It seems reasonable to assume that we can’t continue on this ride of infinite growth for a whole lot longer...

No, actually we can continue this infinate growth for a whole lot longer.