The hunt has been replaced by the rat race for money, but the rat race has now become as obsolete as the hunt. For thousands of years, people have utilized various means to lessen the amount of work that they themselves had to do. As Marxists well know, the cleverest ones found ways to get other people to do work for them, and became things like kings, priests, scribes, mandarins, and bureaucrats. In turn, they exploited the labor of animals and other human beings. Slavery has been abolished, although as the Marxists remind us, it has been replaced by wage slavery.
Workers are still slaves to their paycheck.
But, their true master is even more harsh and unforgiving. It is the time clock. In the truly liberated society, we will no longer be slaves of the clock either. Only the anarchists are bold enough to announce that programme. Machines can be held to those things, since they do not suffer and are incapable of complaining.