This is essentially the system in Chuck Palahniuk's Rant and it's a little weird. There are opposing classes where urban dwellers are forcefully divided by curfew into two separate classes: the respectable Daytimers and the oppressed Nighttimers. It kindof makes sense, but kindof doesn't.
Anyway, I'm cool with a couple of days where things are essentially shut down. I do like the idea that I can go to the store or get food at any hour of the day that I like on any day that I like. I think it encourages consumerism, which I don't approve of, but it also gives people jobs, which I do approve of. If we had around-the-clock jobs, I think it would be good to provide work for folks who otherwise might not have that opportunity, but I can also see it becoming a societal pidgeon-hole where lowlifes and dregs and lower-class folks indefinitely get stuck working graveyard shifts, kindof like in the book I just mentioned, but without the oppression (note: I'm not actually calling people who work graveyards lowlifes and dregs).




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