## Metadata * URL: [https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much) * Published Date: 2022-06-18 * Author: [[tim-wu|Tim Wu]] ## Highlights * Indeed, in 2006, the top twenty per cent of earners were twice as likely to work more than fifty hours a week than the bottom twenty per cent, a reversal of historic conditions.