And, the average person’s gut morality is not consequentialist but virtue ethicist… You work until you “deserve” a break.
That is a very good point.
I wouldn’t have used the word “morality,” but I think its use is the key to the situation. If you “work in order to make money,” there is nothing moral about the question of how much to work. Partly people work until they “deserve” a break because they don’t just work for money, but also to demonstrate virtue. But partly it is that people are confused about moral senses of “should” and instrumental senses of “should”; they rely on the same gut module for both decisions.
That is a very good point.
I wouldn’t have used the word “morality,” but I think its use is the key to the situation. If you “work in order to make money,” there is nothing moral about the question of how much to work. Partly people work until they “deserve” a break because they don’t just work for money, but also to demonstrate virtue. But partly it is that people are confused about moral senses of “should” and instrumental senses of “should”; they rely on the same gut module for both decisions.