Right... Overall a free market society trends in this direction. More leisure time and wealth.

This is the place where capitalism and communism meet and become the same thing. Marx's ideal of "Baker in the morning, stonemason in the afternoon, poet in the evening" etc.

But it takes a big shift in mindset. It requires people to be self-motivated rather than being told what to do and how to live their life by external forces, government, the Church, family, etc.