Raw LLM Responses

I don't think free time is mainly a function of productivity or technology, the workweek is basically at an amount which we have decided (or have had decided for us) that it *should* be. It used to be longer and carry over to Saturday. We got to around 8h through massive labour activism and that progress has been rolled back with people forced (by technology) to be available for far longer or with jobs that have worse conditions which skirt ("disrupt") the pre-existing labor laws/norms (like Uber.) Automation will be an amazing development but only if we utilize it in the benefit of labor. But that happening requires a fundamental change in our view of the economy, which isn't an automatic thing. Consider that if people asked for less work hours (with the same compensation) today they would be told either *you're fired* or if they had to justify themselves, that it is *impossible* as it would make the company unable to compete. That argument will still work even when automation displaces jobs.