I guess there's a conservative counter-argument on the wings that this will "cut productivity" -- Cato Institute guy touches on it a bit.
You know what? Good. If what it takes to be productive is people working 65-hour weeks in order to stay "on par" in their industry, then, well, let's be more like the French -- second graph.
This "certain class" of workers is people who work themselves to death to stay employed. I normally pay a good bit of attention to "conservative" economics, secondary considerations to government intervention and all that, I've read some good stuff from the Cato Institute -- but this is I guess just too far-sighted for me.
Unfortunately that's a bit silly.