People hate being bored. This means if you make people have too much leisure time, they seek alternatives. In the past, this was mainly family and community ev

People hate being bored. This means if you make people have too much leisure time, they seek alternatives. In the past, this was mainly family and community events. As the strength of both the family and civic social institutions declined, we became dependent on businesses to provide us things our families used to (child care, elder care, parties, dinners, storytelling, entertainment, music, etc). These cause demand for more commercial businesses. As the article states, all the commentators were envisioning a work week dominated only by making sure you had enough to survive. If people actually wanted this, they would be able to achieve it. However, people really want iphones, vacations, nice clothes, etc as well. So there is demand for labor, and where there's demand and a buyer with excess cash, we will step up.