politicians don't want the plebs to have too much time for anything other than working ... that's just asking for trouble. the less people work, the more they think, come up with ideas and even start to realize that working is for most people in most situations a mere waste of their life time. personally I do believe that work in some way is essential for human life and well being - but I write "some way" because it would be difficult to describe how that would look like but the present state of what working is like for most people is a pathogenic perversion in my opinion.