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ovi256today at 11:11 AM3 repliesview on HN

While humans have historically mildly reduced their working time to today's 40h workweek, their consumption has gone up enormously, and whole new categories of consumption were opened. So my prediction is while you'll never live in a 900,000sqft apartment (unless we get O'Neill cylinders from our budding space industry) you'll probably consume a lot more, while still working a full week


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rightbytetoday at 12:07 PM

40h is probably up from pre-industrial times.

Edit: There is some research covering work time estimates for different ages.

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amrochatoday at 6:57 PM

That sounds like a nightmare. Let’s sell out a generation so that we can consume more. Wow.

wizzwizz4today at 1:47 PM

I don't want to "consume a lot more". I want to work less, and for the work I do to be valuable, and to be able to spend my remaining time on other valuable things.

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