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Philip Goetz's avatar

This is kinda pointless speculation. We don't work fewer hours because, when we are more productive, consumer costs rise back to the point where a forty-hour week provides a socially-acceptable lifestyle. It seems pretty clear by now that some law of economics ensures that, in a free market, employees will always have to work as many hours as they can work, and only cultural standards (in which the whole labor force is a kind of super-union) can hold that down to, say, 40-hour work weeks and 5 work days.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

two things:1) rate of mutation - most will be harmful2) number of offspring.- aleast some mutations per generation will be beneficialModelling product variations using evolutionary theory may be useful.

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