Walmart cashier hands receipt to customer at checkout in Walmart store
  • Lower-income workers want to work more, and higher-income workers want to work less.
  • Automation took hours from lower-income workers, and it benefits employers to keep them part time.
  • Higher-income employees work long hours to maintain a middle-class lifestyle for their families.

Businesses have said for more than a year that people don't want to work. To they contrary, they do.