So you tell me how many hours we'll have to work a week when machines do all the work?
The average income has risen five fold (in real, dollars) in the past century. Most people today are working at different jobs than they would have back then. People have been wringing their hands about technological change, since the dawn of the industrial revolution — yet, here we are.
What’s happened in my work place is all employees except for management are now part-time. Work hours for each department are determined by the productivity of the entire department they are assigned to, not to individual sales volume ..which is dependent on who walks in the door ...so they really have no control over the customer traffic. If the sales aren’t there, neither are the working hours.
Additionally when hours are cut those who do work are required to carry the department and any other department that gets busy. It’s a nightmare when the pace picks up.