In 1930, the great economist J M Keynes wrote in his essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” that in a hundred years, the average work week could fall to 15 hours.
People would need to work just three hours a day, and “for the first time since his creation man will be faced with … how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure”. That a hundred years later more than three-fourths of males even in advanced countries work more than 40 hours a week is not just because two of his conditions were not met: That there ...
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