I've been thinking alone about this for a while now.
My totally uneducated guess is that this (depending on the country) 8 hours/day work system was created because back in the day it was needed for most companies to be viable. Otherwise the profit wouldn't be enough for them to pay everybody and expand and get rich all the good stuff.
But now with all the automation, and technology I can't help but feel exploited and scammed by the system. They don't need us to work that much anymore , heck I bet we could have a fully functioning society with people working 3 hours a day.
Also why are so many people living wonderful Instagram lives while we spend at minimum 45 hours a week doing something we all despise? Aren't we paying for the the extravagance of the rich?
I'm not in the left, I don't believe in socialism, but the current system is rigged against us and that is simply not acceptable. Like Jordan Peterson said in one of his interviews “Everybody need to feel that the game is fair because otherwise there's nothing stopping them from just flipping the table, they know that by doing that chaos will certainly follow, but there's a small chance that the new configuration could be better, and since the old one was certain doom, they might decide to do just that” Something along these lines.
*Sorry if bad English it's my third language.
**I know I mentioned the left but I don't really want to get political in the discussion, because despite political differences I think we all agree that we're on the losing side of this game right now.