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Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by ml_basics on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:03PM (#35494608)
> Where's the predicted society where automation allows us all to work for two hours a day, and spend the rest at leisure?

Others have already commented on the fact that quality of life has generally increased.

I think it's also worth realizing that over the course of a lifetime people today spend a much smaller fraction of their waking hours engaged in work than before.

100 years ago a typical man in a developed country might have started work aged 14 and then stopped working a few years before death if they were lucky to not die before.

Nowadays even someone "uneducated" would start working at 18, while others might start aged 22 or older. And a common expectation is to have a retirement of 15+ years.

So averaging over a lifetime we do work a lot less as a fraction of our lives than in earlier times.

Edit: numbers were plucked from thin air based on my experiences of my own country, but i guess the general point applies to most developed countries

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