Comment by TelmoMenezes

I find it disturbing that we are stuck with a type of economy where this is a problem. The purely rational response: yay, now we don't have to work so much! But this never happens. Why? Why isn't there a market pressure to reduce the number of hours that people work (for the same pay) once more things get automated? Why is it that technology could bring us closer to heaven, but we choose over and over again to live in hell? How could the right incentives be created?