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I'm all for the freedom to choose the length of your work week. But don't come back later complaining about widening income gap among people.

There will be differences in outcome between people who work 30 vs 60 hours in any given industry. Not in all individual cases, but generally.

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Complaints against income gaps (or, more significantly, wealth gaps) tend to focus on the top 10%, 1% or <1% versus the remainder of society. I don't think a variance of +/- 20% among the vast majority of workers (middle ~70%) is going to skew the wealth gap very much. The wealthiest, who continue to become wealthier vis-a-vis everyone else, would not be impacted by such variance.

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