I really doubt that. Choose to work 40 hrs?<p>There are a few people who are lucky enough whose work is their hobby, and who feel happy doing it, but mostly, work is draining and stressful. And I don&#x27;t mean physically draining.<p>I&#x27;m convinced the &#x27;Fall from Eden&#x27; story was inspired by the invention of agriculture. Suddenly, people had to work a lot more (hunter-gatherers typically work 4-5 hours a day). Only the aristocracy inherited the privilege of having a lot of leisure time and being able to hunt(barring the US, hunting is extremely restricted).<p>Nutrition got worse, it took millenia of improvement till skeletons of farmers started to look as well-fed as those of hunter gatherers.<p>And of course proximity to farm animals and greater population introduced all those nice pathogens: tuberculosis, smallpox, flu...