>but technology make things easier
Which means people are expected to do more.

Take a scholar from 1700 or 1800 and bring him to a into a modern equivalent of his job. Sure, initially he will be amazed by all the miraculous things he has at his disposal, libraries of knowledge accessible in an instant, being able to edit, print and send documents however he wants, things that would take weeks or months now take mere minutes, all telecommunications and electronics and off course all the comfort and amenities at his disposal from refrigerated food to modern medicine and so on.

But once the novelty wears of, he will realize that now he is expected to write 10x, 20x, 50x times more than he used to, faster, with tighter deadlines. More articles, more reports, more presentations, more project applications. There is no excuse that you can only physically read a certain amount of documents, no, you have to go trough a lot more. And now he has to write in the evenings, at night and in weekends to finish these. Going somewhere else is no excuse, you have the tablet and the laptop now. It doesn't matter if you are on another continent. Tasks will literally follow you to the ends of the Earth. He will beg to go back to his time.