I was just listening to someone I know wonder non-sarcastically why the introduction of AI wasn’t reducing the amount of work he had to do.

I am always amazed when otherwise smart people express confusion about why this or that new time/labor-saving tool or technology does not end up actually giving us any more time.

Like, my guys—so long as we have a bunch of people who own the means of production and view any time not spent working as a waste of an opportunity for them to suck up more money, we will never have these four-hour work weeks and excess of leisure time that everyone is always going on about.