And I bet that if we refocused things on generating/providing useful and high-quality products/services instead of this blind chasing after short-term profit and infinite growth, the work itself would become such that people wouldn't even mind working in the first place...

Speaking from personal experience as a QA Engineer, I never want to touch any part of software development ever again in any start-up or corporation, unless they're doing it for the software and not the money. My 13-year career ended in nothing short of heartbreak. At least for the time being.

At the same time, I would like to ward against the primitivist argument that we're worse off now, in terms of leisure time, than we were before the development of human civilization. We're incredibly better off now than previously.

It's just that having a better life than people living at a subsistence level still does not legitimize having years of our lives stolen from us so a couple of nepo kids can circlejerk on their yachts about how much better they are than us Poors.

Bes D. Marx has a great youtube channel for those interested