Also, I find something incredibly cozy about my city going to sleep at night. Almost nothing is open, not even most convenience stores, and I just find that so cozy.
There is room for a night time economy based around the people and services that run while you sleep in your standard schedule. Big cities wouldn't be possible without the efforts of people on AM heavy schedules.
In Germany you can't work on Sundays. I always wanted to work on Sundays as a student, Fridays and Saturdays were worse, since that's the only days where most social gatherings happen.
On the news I hear people saying they don't want to force people to work on Sundays. I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, not everybody is the same.
I even agree we need limits. But how about limiting it to working 5 days a week, instead of picking an arbitrary day where you can't work.
Calling medicine that is potentially life-saving purchases at 3am "trivial" is unnecessarily cruel even for HN. Yes, 7-Eleven sells a lot of medicine that can save someone's life that they might not "stock up on" because they have insufficient money to stock up on every possible medicine and plan for every possible event.
In reality, those who work those shifts are often people who don't have much of a choice where to work, much less which hours they're assigned. Sometimes managers will be nice and keep you on a regular shift so you develop a sane sleep schedule -- not usually.
Just like working on holidays, I don't bemoan anyone who wants to eat fast food, or the workers who want to make a little more money. But let's not ignore that these workers' economic situations are different than ours and usually much more dire, so talking about what they "want" can't really be divorced from the systems that keep them in relative (and actual) poverty.
Not earning is worse.
Try that in Australia and you'll find yourself in a rental car with no petrol, in the middle of no where with no food!