A lot of things which we think are laws of nature, such as "people need to have A Job", are in fact just effects of a peculiar-to-one-time-in-history economic phenomena, like "transaction costs and overhead in arranging employment so dominate returns to labor that it is more efficient to maintain simultaneous overstaffing and underutilization of almost the entire professional work force than it is to fill orders for work like we fulfill orders for pizzas."

Tech has a wee bit of an effect in changing these economic underpinnings of how the culture works. So do economic arrangements, social pressures, the health of the alternative models, etc. (For a few decades there it was more economical in Japan to buy/sell labor in fifty year blocks than it was to buy it in two week chunks, like it is bought in America. That system is no longer healthy, which makes the two week chunk option more appealing.)

Anyhow, it is by no means a given that the net result of increasing efficiency is working harder. The Internet makes it really efficient for me to negotiate I've-got-brains-you've-got-money-lets-trade relative to the traditional employment system in this neck of the woods. This caused my economic output to go waaaay the heck up and my hours worked to crater.