Doesn’t Jeff Bezos have a right to be mad if you’re clocked in for forty hours but only actually working for thirty? Aren’t you stealing from him? What is an honest day’s work? How long does it last? How hard do you work? What are you owed in exchange? I like to picture the history of work as two titans, Labor and Capital,* locked in a centuries-long wrestling match. Whoever’s on top at the moment gets to define “an honest day’s work.”
