It should be blamed on employers, though (and the systemic, if you will, but employers have more power here and I believe blaming the higher power entities is m

It should be blamed on employers, though (and the systemic, if you will, but employers have more power here and I believe blaming the higher power entities is more appropriate than lower power entities). Employers are why more people have to work. A lot of what you're referring to relies on a chunk of people not working, and that has been eliminated, you just didn't notice because a lot of this work was not called work. > Today the average American only works 1,765 hours a year. That is less than practically any time in our history. For one, you're forgetting a certain half of all workers that just was conveniently never counted. For another, it's a question of scale. It's like, going from 100% to 90%. It will always look good, but it's not that big of a difference in practice. You have to evaluate it objectively. And, objectively, it just sucks.