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dwdtoday at 1:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Maynard Keynes posited a future 15 hour work week in 1930 based on the productivity gains after WW1, nearly 100 years ago now.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf


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abyssintoday at 7:09 AM

The average work time in European societies is probably that. The majority of citizens don’t work (too young, studying, sick, unemployed, retired). But it’s changing fast, the rich are no longer accepting this situation. The ones working get happily manipulated into believing others should suffer as much as they do, instead of organizing lifestyles into a more frugal fashion for the benefit of all.