What's wrong with people have more free time. Take a look at the work environment, it's extremely inefficient. I see people standing around doing nothing for much of their work day. Sure many people have jobs where they're extremely busy. So how about take the people with shit jobs and move them over to essential jobs to alleviate the burden.
I say this as someone that spent 25 years working a field that expected me to work sometimes 36hrs straight and I'm not talking about twiddling my thumbs, I had a job where I was dealing with constant problems that had to be solved, that's all I did was solve one problem after another. I'd go weeks where I worked 7 days a week 18hrs a day meeting deadlines. So I walked away after I had lots of money saved up.
That's basically 25 years of my life down the toilet. I didn't do shit, I went to work, went home shoved some food in my mouth and went to bed, or often times ended up with tons of paperwork and studying I needed to do to perform my job.
So why not take those people with mind numbing jobs where they stand around all day and put them into jobs that count.
The key is to drastically bring down the cost of education, make it more flexible to non-traditional schedules, vocational training, self study and test taking. Lets think outside of the box and get this done so we can all enjoy that 20 hour work week when we're all helping out, instead of serving slop at McD's.
While we're doing this encourage people to consume less, have less or no kids, figure out how to be okay without compulsively shopping everyday. Slowing down this frenetic pace.