40 hours work week is substantially higher than is necessary. The problem, as usual, is a subsidization of the unbearably rich, who are running on colossally negative effective work weeks. One of the best ways to combat unemployment is to reduce the work week, but also means rich people can't be as rich since workers have stronger bargaining power. The more advanced economies have loads of holidays and shorter work weeks than other countries. They're also the most productive, highest living standards by far, and have all but eradicated things like homelessness

The normal work week for humans is actually pretty low. It is only in this crazy civilization where everybody has been brainwashed into being the tools for the royalty, do we need to labor so much yet get so little back

Only in this world can the people who actually make a product get paid minimally while people who developed an artificial ownership of the product reap as high of benefits as possible. Numbers just came out that 88% of the last few years of growth have gone to the richest while only 1% has gone to median wage increases. This is why the work week is so huge. If you're not one of the chosen ones, you're squeezed for all you're worth