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Humans in the west work between 1/2 and 2/3rds the number of hours worked in 1870. The ‘winning’ of the 8 hour work day wasn’t until 1938 in the USA, but there’s no correlate drop off. Instead, it’s the congealment of numerous technological and social changes over time.

we’ve also managed to create a crapload of more wealth while working way less. average westerner is significantly wealthier than in 1950 and works significantly less. also we basically ended child labor in that time period and took entire generations of people out of the workforce via pensions

almost all of the productivity gains that have allowed us to more or less solve child labor and senior poverty have been due to computation and organizational changes begotten by technology

Technology yes, which technologies depends on analysis. Vaccination and public health big effects. Contraception. Etc