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How did you calculate that?
Because we produce excess wealth and resources with our current 9-5?
Not to mention all the studies showing how much productivity has increased or how employees are made to do tasks for the sake of looking busy.
Ok, so you're taking about the 1% hording all the wealth. I guess you're right. I remember some study listing what every person on earth could have in a sustainable world and it covered all the basic needs and more. For me the original tweet sounded like "people spend all their money on rent so with free housing they wouldn't have to work" which ignores all the other needs I listed.
George Jetson only worked 2 hours a week, and he could support a family of four plus a robot maid. Today's families have two people working two jobs with the same hours as 100 years ago, and they can't afford to buy a house.
Because billionaires exist. Literally, that's it. If you do the math and you distribute that out to everyone as their fair labor value, then yeah. People don't need to work much at all to make society function.
Think about how much of your society is just advertising for some new bullshit finance scheme that only syphons money from the bottom up to the top? And they pay people to do it. An insane amount of the "work" done by people today does ABSOLUTELY nothing to benefit humanity. It's busywork to make rich people richer.
Fun fact: our economy is based on the work of John Maynard Keynes, who predicted the high growth would allow us a 15-hour work week by now. Guess where that time is going instead?
It's a fun fact and not a sad fact because we still got the technology anyways, so we can still get there in a matter of years if society makes better choices.