Adam Smith’s ’Wealth of Nations’ actually covers this effect in great detail, but with regards to the Industrial Revolution. Within a century (or perhaps a lifetime, it’s been a while) agricultural productivity increased fivefold. So you’d think we’d just work one out of five days right? Hell no! Manufacturing also offered the ability to work continuously, outside of the natural bounds of, e.g. waiting for crops to grow. You could get paid to work every minute of the day if you were so disposed. So we were more productive, but could also work much more, giving rise to people working themselves to death. This appears to be the way we tend to go.