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WingsOfGood posted...

Here is a better way to look at it.
What if you only had to work 6 hours a day. And you got 1/3 of the year off.

What do you think would happen? Keep in mind you talked about office jobs that are notorious with people sitting at a screen pretending to be busy.
World would end because now the norm is less hours and more off time? Yes? No? Why or why not.

I mean, if your argument is that the work situation of the world can be made more efficient, and so we can all afford to work less, then I agree. Sure, I don't think society will melt down if we worked 6 hours instead of 8, I'm sure many people don't even work 8 hours a day, they just go to work for 8 hours a day and do far less actual work. And yet, society has not melted down due to these folks and they may well be most people who work, period.

Alright. Sure.

But it doesn't change the fact that humanity has largely always had to work its ass off, and we're actually doing far easier work today, in general, in the countries in the context of this discussion.