Work depreciation — objective need or disastrous avidity?

Society of the XXI century had to test "dizziness": automation, various consumption, vicious comfort, importance not physical, but social skills. In practice for the last 40 years the number of working hours around the world only grew. Idea as if society without effort "will come soon, it is necessary to wait only", played with us an evil joke: work depreciated though the need for it grew, and working hands became deficiency...