We live in a society where people work 40 hours a week, regardless. If people do a menial task more efficiently, the reward isn't going home and spending time w

We live in a society where people work 40 hours a week, regardless. If people do a menial task more efficiently, the reward isn't going home and spending time with their family, it's more menial tasks. There is an exception: you might get to go home to your family if you get fired because your department is so much more efficient that you are no longer necessary. But given our society also demands that people do 40 hours a week of menial tasks to eat and live inside, it's hard to argue that's a good thing. The only way increased productivity lets people spend more time for themselves is if it is on menial tasks outside of work, and most individual consumers won't pay for software, so then you're often into violating people's privacy to sell ads, which again is pretty hard to justify.