Work

I'd say the inherent value of work is that it produces something, whatever that may be. And obviously there's a thing as too much work. For people, overwork leads to a drop in health and morale, which in turn would cause a drop in efficiency, all things people would prefer to avoid happening.

As for automated, industrial work, the limit is rather different. You can turn the automation off when the workers go home, and start it up the next day, saving x amount of hours of fuel, but if the machines are capable of working 24 hours a day, and turning them off does nothing but delay the completion of whatever task they're working on, then there's no reason to really turn them off.

Whatever the factories are making, they're not going to continue on indefinitely, they're going to keep running until they finish making five thousand cars, or fifty thousand microchips, or whatever else, and then they'll stop until something else needs to be made. Turning the factory off does absolutely nothing but spread the process out for longer or make some other factory pick up the slack.

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