This makes no sense. Moving emphasis from Production (work) to Consumption (leisure) increases carbon usage, and halts progress towards more sustainable technologies and conservative behaviours. Climate progress takes effort not entertainment.
Well, you still need to consume, eat, house yourself etc. Any situation where you're not paying for that without a productive output is one where you're increasing the ratio of consumption to production. Of course not all work is productive, but solving inefficiencies is _work_ not leisure
A large proportion of work is aimed at housing, but for entirely the wrong reasons. Housing costs in first world countries these days generally expand to consume available income, via land price inflation. Actual build cost - "production" - is a minor piece of the pie.
That's assuming all work is valuable (and productive). There are swaths of jobs that could be eliminated in favor of automation.
I think the most sustainable long term approach is to aim for efficiency. No need to have people commute to an admin job that could easily be done by software.
That being said, we need to also strive for sustainable consumption.
