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by tdfx 4339 days ago
> In 200 years, people will only have hobby because that will be all they have to do and most of their needs have been automated.

This has not been the trend. Interconnectivity and ease of travel were supposed to relax the amount of work we do, but instead people put in more hours than ever. The efficiency gains have created winners and losers, but both are working at least as hard as before.
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davedx 4339 days ago
Depends on the country. In the Netherlands we are definitely working less :)

"In the mid-2000s, the Netherlands was the first country in the industrialized world where the overall average working week dropped to less than 30 hours."

Nice tables: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/studies/tn0803046s/nl080...

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sanxiyn 4339 days ago
People may not work less (I don't think people are working more), but both working condition and nature of work greatly improved. That is, work is more enjoyable now than in the past.

According to some economists, this is the primary reason why work hours has not declined as expected.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/the...

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