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Ok. Explain how you can have 80 hour weeks with no overtime when the statutory alternative job in the local area is 35 hours a week, $25 per hour, 9-5 steady work about half a mile away from their house with full health care, pension and sickness cover.

How does the 80 hour week person get any labour?

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Potential for growth, probably. I may have more ambition than to make more than $45,500 per year for most of my career. I'd rather make six figures, save, and retire to a comfortable lifestyle. I've worked plenty of 80-hour weeks towards that goal, and I will doubtless work plenty more.

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