It is shocking to me that people spend so little time thinking about the matter that they believe this would be a good thing.

Oh but they have.[0]

Would you like to share why you feel that it would be a bad thing for people to have more free time? Do you think that the current levels of free time that people have is optimal? Why or why not?

[0] https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

I'm already working part time, happier than ever. I can't imagine a single scenario in which going from 40 to 30 hours work week would be negative, neither individually nor collectively.

At the end of the day how much work can be reduced doesn't matter as long as the people that we end up are the type that would bring the universe to an early heat death just so they could say they had one more dollar than another person.

Not solving greed before creating AI might be humanities final mistake.

lmao, this is what economists, industrials and politicians told us since the 40s

Meanwhile we work more hours and retire later than back then. It's never been about reducing the working hours, and probably won't be for a long while

And not only that but the jobs that were once fulfilling and stable are now absolutely miserable and everything but stable, we lost the meaning of work

I think it's incredibly naive to think that an increase in your productivity will result in a reduction of hours worked, especially at the same pay.

No, you'll just be given more work to do. If it takes you 20 hours/week to finish what took you 40 hours/week last year, you'll just be given double the work to complete and at the same salary/wage.

Make no mistake, the prime benefactor of increased automation won't be the workers, it'll be the owners.