Exactly. If you go back 3-4 centuries you'll find that people basically worked 2-3 months per year, tops. Hell, even my grandfather remembers a time when that w

Exactly. If you go back 3-4 centuries you'll find that people basically worked 2-3 months per year, tops. Hell, even my grandfather remembers a time when that was the case. I once researched it for a particular city in Europe in 1856, because information on it was readily available to me. 56 working days. I think for the large majority of history we were in the situation that there wasn't nearly enough work for all people, and we're simply getting to an actual peak in human employment and seeing the initial effects of labour needs not rising any more. It's a matter of only a little bit of time until the need for labour drops back to what it was since the later days of the Roman Empire until the industrial revolution : 10-15% employment at best (discounting illegal work like prostitution, which, scarily, must have been the second largest "employer" for over a millenium, and of course discounting wars, which employed many more). I personally think will be back into that situation by the end of the next decade.