The 9-5 is an archaic system that can't be applied to EVERY job, I get it for labour and industrial jobs, your 8 hours on the job - minus launch and chatting shit with everyone on the job can only yield x or very close to it, you can only create so many widgets or lay so many bricks

But with knowledge work, i don't see it like that, when i worked at companies, I completed my daily tasks and many times just sat around watching series, or learning something I wanted on the side, I was just "on call" just in case something happened outside my expected task.

I think a lot of people see that and feel but hey so many hours are not being used and well also my salary ain't getting any stronger in purchasing power, whats a man to do?

Start your own business? No that's too hard, and risky and involve a lot of unpaid hours, so whats the other option?

When you've been browbeaten like that you're prime for scams, wealth without work has been sold to people for generations, the internet has just jacked it up to 1000

I don't think the 9-5 is a scam, i just think that it doesn't have to apply to every job and companies that figure this out will attract better talent at lower cost and outcompete, or so I tell myself