>At a certain point we will move past scarcity, and maybe we won’t have to labor to not die. Society seems to be globally showing very decisively that it wont

>At a certain point we will move past scarcity, and maybe we won’t have to labor to not die. Society seems to be globally showing very decisively that it wont allow that to happen. Productivity has already increased massively. Society could have already used that productivity to decrease the hours that each person has to work to survive. Instead, society's structure pushes those profits to the owners of the businesses that run the technology. 'Working class people must work full time' is still such a fundamental part of culture that it is literally the Federal Reserve's mandate to maximise employment.