Shorten the work week

Throughout this past century, there has been plenty of mechanization & automation(...)( and more recently, A.I. - but that's a whole other discussion ) - i.e.: do a job more efficiently - get the same amount of work done using less labor.

But instead of people working less, businesses chose to produce more(...)( i.e. more goods and more services, per capita ).  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.

What to cut

To have a world with a shorter work week, we need to be honest about what things we could produce less of.

• We can still have nice things, just not replace them so often.
  • ↑ Note: This applies to rich countries a lot more than poor countries.
• Also we must be honest about what work we don't actually need done.

Then, to put this into practice in real life, we would need radical economic changes (such as socialism). Let's start a discussion of how that could work.