Here in Latin America where wealth is so poorly distributed making this the most unequal region in the world, the reduction of working hours would translate into more jobs for one person, i.e., in the face of reduced wages, less hours to dedicate to work, therefore, the working population will have more hours to find a second or third job to generate the same income as it did as a single 8-hour job.

On this side of the world the automation of work is a utopia, not to mention the reduction of working hours, not to mention that the peasant sector, for example, is much more backward than in developed countries, therefore the workforce dedicated to planting food performs exploitative schedules and earn slave wages, without considering the dumping applied by rich countries with their abusive systems of subsidies that makes it cheaper to import food than to plant it in your own country.

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