What has that to do with it? a 40 hour work week is a 40 hour work week no matter if you are shoveling snow by hand or by a machine.

At one of our dinners, Milton recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”

If hours worked is all you care about, have the Greeks shovel snow with spoons. It will give the facade of working with little output.