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> Mom, dad, and kid all need to go to work/school at roughly the same time.

That's okay, once automation really gets going, Mom & Dad will be out of work, solving that problem.

That's kinda the point. We all work too much right now as it is. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-...

CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter was just in the On-Point podcast saying the same thing (in context to work-life balance and family), that we have a bias for thinking the person who comes in at 6am and leaves at 6pm is a good worker.

This bleeds over into decisions that affects other aspects such as telecommuting, paternity leave, etc.

Bertrand Russell wrote a rather famous [0] essay on it in the 1930's.

0: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

Russel is one of my favorites and I never knew he wrote this - thanks for sharing.

That sounds funny, but when you put this together with the known increasing costs of supporting suburban infrastructure, it's possible that that whole style of life will be outcompeted and put out of business in most places.

Or it will become a poverty trap.

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