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Then there's a problem. However we somehow manage to employ a few billion people currently.
Those few billion people are currently not paid the same as an accountant to do much more demanding work.
We're talking about food production.I misunderstood you. Have more people doing farm work, that way we have enough food and individual farmers don't have to work so hard
But what if you can't find enough people to do farm work? A lot of people work on farms now because they don't have much of a choice. And if you could do easier work but be paid the same as you would on a farm, why not take advantage of that?
We already have people working lots of hours doing jobs they might not want to do.
The question was could we reduce the number of hours people work and still have enough food
I thought everyone was also going to be paid equally.
I didn't even mention pay
The comment chain before you entered into it:
With modern farming, 10% of the people can now produce enough food for everyone. And if everyone had equal income instead of the top 1% syphoning off half the wealth, we could globally support a middle class lifestyle by everyone working 20 hours a week, the same amount that hunters and gatherers “worked”.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11628981
So equal pay was already part of the discussion before you joined it.
We chase money because this equates to goods and services. Well there's a huge excess of money being produced and horded.
This excess production is a result of ... work (plus machinery, efficiency improvements etc).
So if we reduced the numbers of hours worked we'd reduce this excess.

Once again, if everyone is to be paid equally, as has been established, why would most people choose to do physically demanding jobs?
It's really not my argument. I'm saying we can work fewer hours.
However since you insist on bringing up the point of pay equality, under the current system, how can you justify the following discrepancies:
Why should a fireman risk their life for $56k? https://www.indeed.com/career/firefighter/salaries
Or a teacher who's bringing up the future generation get just $36k? https://www.indeed.com/career/teacher/salaries
Whilst a web developer gets nearly double for sitting on their ass? https://www.indeed.com/career/web-developer/salaries
Why does a plastic surgeon earn $100k more than an oncologist (who is, I'd argue, much more likely to save save a life) https://www.forbes.com/advisor/in/education/doctor-salary-in-us/