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>If the individual is more productive, they can work fewer hours.

I have never seen people working fewer hours due to technological improvement, productivity just goes up from them working more efficiently for 8 hours.

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Have you met many humans? ;)

A very large proportion of the people I've worked with over my career would absolutely work less hard if they could get away with it.

Ah for sure, that's not what I meant. I was talking about the fact that sooner or later people running the business figure out they can increase the workload if employees have too much spare time. Else we'd be at pre-computers productivity levels.

Fair point!

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