‘John Maynard Keynes anticipated that, barring disastrous mistakes by policymakers, the western standard of living would multiply to four times that of 1930 within a century. By his calculations, in 2030 we’d be working just 15 hours a week.’
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“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down --at any rate in Great Britain; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us…
“My purpose in this essay, however, is not to examine the present or the near future, but to disembarrass myself of short views and take wings into the future. What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren?”
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John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren
‘Is there anything that working less does not solve?’
‘What does working less solve? I’d rather turn the question around. Is there anything that working less does not solve?’
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The solution to (nearly) everything: working less
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