Obviously it depends a lot but, as white-collars tech people, we can already work less.

What's preventing us from going on sabbatical ? We would earn less, sure, but do we really need that money? I mean it is buying us things that our parents didnt have so it should be possible to do without, no?

Again, that's a different story for poor people.

> What's preventing us from going on sabbatical?

Companies are not thrilled to hire people with long gaps in their resume, in my experience. (I have 2, 1, 1, years each gaps in mine.)

You risk making yourself unhirable. And, if not now, at some point you will need money.

One can only do it so much, that's true. And at some point will all need some money.

Are you unhirable now or do you simply feel you are less valuable ?

Yeah I guess it answers the question who wins (for now). for sure it's just a problem for copywriters who will need to work as roofers until the ever increasing retirement age because a thing trained on stolen text now does the copywriting. The tech people who made it happen can just chill and tell everybody how they can work less while snowboarding in the alps.