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I think advances in cultural norms improve more slowly than advances in technology. Also if you are a policymaker who discourages productivity, then that is equivalent to discouraging economic growth. Even if it would increase the well being of workers, it's controversial to be anti-growth.

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I think part of the problem is that our notion of productivity is tied up with producing, perhaps in some absolute and immediate sense. If we expand the idea to encouraging less work at the same level of efficiency I don't think it would be quite as controversial as discouraging productivity.

It's still somewhat controversial, because if everyone did that, it would reduce the GDP.

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