The seductive failure of doing that is what you choose to invest your saved time in, similar to financial debt.
It’s one thing if someone is iron willed enough to make productive use of their new free time.
It’s different if they use it to play video games and sleep.
Most people, if left to their own devices, will do the latter.
We can say what we want about a hard, challenging job, but it forces us to work and learn. Thus, at the end of it, we have the benefit of that working and learning.
The better question is not “How little work can I get away with doing?” but rather “What will I have at the end of this work?”
It’s one thing if someone is iron willed enough to make productive use of their new free time.
It’s different if they use it to play video games and sleep.
Most people, if left to their own devices, will do the latter.
We can say what we want about a hard, challenging job, but it forces us to work and learn. Thus, at the end of it, we have the benefit of that working and learning.
The better question is not “How little work can I get away with doing?” but rather “What will I have at the end of this work?”