Oh hmm, no, that's not my point. My point is that unless the study also looked into what the people with fewer hours then did with the now-free hours, we all ha

Oh hmm, no, that's not my point. My point is that unless the study also looked into what the people with fewer hours then did with the now-free hours, we all have insufficient information with which to make a good/bad judgement call on it. I don't follow your utilitarian math. Can you rephrase? > that the employee gets the value rather than the rest of society. I don't think drawing this line is reasonable. The employee is part of society, trying to reason from a starting point of separating them from it just seems silly. As far as I understand your argument, I definitely do not agree that it's a broken window fallacy. In your view, what is the broken window in this case? (Not the fallacy, the thing that would be the literal broken window).