That's exactly what I was thinking. Have you ever held a job at a moderately large corporation or government? A lot of people do very little at work a lot of th

That's exactly what I was thinking. Have you ever held a job at a moderately large corporation or government? A lot of people do very little at work a lot of the time. There are a lot of jobs we don't really need done (“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy” - I have a lot of relatives working in medicine and this is acutely apparent in that field). The first thing any populist politician promises to get elected is that they will create more jobs. I believe the truth is that there isn't so much work that needs to be done as to require a large % of society to work 40+ hours a week. It's mostly a fiction because of beliefs like "people need something to do" or that "welfare=handouts, we can have people freeriding".