These controls were intended to create a national workweek maximum but, poorly designed, they backfired and created a minimum. Plus socialism assumes all men are angels and neglects incentives. Phil focuses on incentive design. Libertarians and socialists share a naivete about regulation, both focusing on the simple regulation level. Libertarians think regulation is the problem.
Socialists think regulation is the solution.
Timesizing says it's not regulation itself that matters - it's the kind of regulation that matters. Because he needs to be able to think like both of them to be able to articulate timesizing and its successors. He needs to be able to dissolve the naive mental ruts and partitions of both Libertarian and Labor thinkers - partitions that exist in his own mind. The future is always deeper into the center than the present - it balances better by triangulating at more extreme positions on the sides. This means the future is further right than right and further left than left in today's terms.