Shorten the work week: Difference between revisions

Throughout this past century, there's been plenty of mechanization & automation{{x|and more recently, A.I. - but that's a whole other discussion}}: increase the efficiency of a job -- make it take less labor to do the same amount of work.&nbsp; But instead of people ''working less'', <!--businesses chose-->the {{t2|market|"market", as in, the "invisible hand of the economy", or basically just a lot of businesses doing what they do to maximize profits}} decided to just ''produce more''{{x|i.e. more goods and more services, per capita. The increased production counterbalances the increased efficiencies, so people on average don't work any less than before.}}.&nbsp; Of course, in moderation this can be a very good thing - but we've long reached a point where it's harming the environment, with diminishing returns on quality of life. In fact, quality of life could be a lot higher if people didn't need to work as much.