How Did Work Turn Into Paid Leisure?

Once the masses worked for distant bosses
and strove daily against hard repetitive labour.
When life proved short for them,
many were quietly glad that one of their number
had met their maker, and gone to the hallelujah side.
Open inequality was how the world was made.
The poor knew how severely they were underpaid,
and under-represented. Why bother with sorrow-
when respite for all was jam in Jerusalem, tomorrow?

Now we are all better misrepresented
and jobs are few, and farther between.
Most work is soft, less desk and paper,
more desktop on laptop, via very fast internet.
Oddly, for it being so abstract, the pressure of work
seems greater for hoping for something real to happen.
When their sense of purpose slackens
many a desk jockey drifts into their own private realm.
For a quarter of their working day they will pursue on-line porn,
hit the social networks, view youtube, etall, then go shopping
for more digital facsimiles of real life, when they could be blogging.