From: OmarsComin | #050
in this day and age, I don't even think having everyone fully employed at 40 hrs/week is reasonable. it's kind of silly with the giant upspikes in productivity and wealth since the industrial era that people are still by and large putting in at least 40 hour workweeks. it has nothing to do with people being lazy or whatever, there's just not that much work to be done when most of it can be automated or sped up by technology.
at some point I suspect we'll discard this notion of "everyone needs to work" as a social convention. it was essential at one point but not now.
I think that from a market sense jobs will no longer be necessary for all, but I mean, there is a lot of luxury work we could be doing with our extra money. It's kind of hard to believe we will run out of work anytime soon.
If we had so much extra productivity, think of all the money we could invest in R&D, beautification, education, and entertainment. The less time we spend working in production, the more time we will spend working in entertainment.
Even then if we ran short on work, I think it would be good for everyone to have a job, even if it just was 20 hours a week
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