Humanity is much more productive per capita than 50 years ago, but we are collectively working more hours, not less.
The goal should not be for everyone to do no work.
The goal should not be for everyone to work full time and fear unemployment.
The goal should not be for everyone to do no work.
The goal should not be for everyone to work full time and fear unemployment.
The kibbutzniks worked a lot harder than U.S. office workers, but didn't have the problem of alienation and the epidemic of mental ill-health (plus chronic inflammation, obesity, et al) that we have.
Almost all of us want the institutional, authoritarian nightmare we call "Work" to die, and it's past high time that it does... but, unfortunately, we've been stripped of our imagination when it comes to the question of how work (that is, useful activity) will get done without it.
Medical and educational costs have risen in the US, I would argue for the same reason.
And some adversarial work has expanded for no reason- look at all the effort spent in high frequency trading that could be replaced by venues running auctions every 100ms instead of having competitions for fractions of a microsecond.