"HeyBub" wrote in message
Decades ago they told us that automation and computerization would
mean a greatly reduced working week,

Nobody ever said that. They said productivity would go up, not that hours
would go down.

Yes, they did. I recall reading about it many years ago. Some economists
were predicting the four day work week. Here I am, 50 years later still
working 5 days a week and I'm ****ed off about it!