At least in nordic countries there was a systematic (and even somewhat successful) political agenda to reduce working hours in the 1980s (when social democracy was the leading ideology). This has appeared sporadically in discussions as well but in practice during the neoliberal era the push has been to longer hours.

IMHO having to work more when productivity and automation increases is quite a clear sign of a fundamentally broken economic system.

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