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Except that most of that is still in effect.
Especially poor people still spend 12+ hours a day working, and even for middle class people it's quite common that both parents work 10+h a day.
Average work hours per year have gone up by ~10% since 1980.
And when it comes to the jobs: While we like to pat ourselves on our back about how creative our work has become, we are essentially still doing factory work, just on a desk with a computer instead of in the factory with a welding torch.
Most of the work that most of the people do is still the same mundane, formulaic toiling away.
Modern education is focussed on teaching kids to learn stuff they don't care for at exactly the time it's asked for. Same as at work. If I have to learn a new framework for a project, I have to learn it right now, no matter if I feel like it or not. My boss is not going to wait around until I naturally feel like learning what's needed for the job.
That's why it's ok that we forget all but the basics the instant we graduate from school.