Work hours have improved more slowly since 1980. Still, UK workers now work 115 hours less a year than they did then, a decline of 6 percent. And similar changes are happening all over the world. Much of that extra time has been filled up with school, which is unlikely to change quickly, even if AI becomes much more capable, but we have also found many other ways to use our leisure. Adjusting to working less may be less traumatic than we think. No one wants to go back to working six days a week in Victorian factories, and we may soon feel the same way about five days a week in grim
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