[bsder]

> In all of human history, work has always increased.

Production has increased. It's not clear that work has increased.

Mills and factories used to employ people by the hundreds of thousands and maintain people in a blue-collar standard of living. Now, no manufacturer even exists in the top 25 employers in the US--it's all service industry.

The vast majority of the decendants of the people working those manufacturing jobs are not working in better jobs than those were.