The 40-Hour Work Week Refuses To Die
Does work give life meaning?
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6 min readSep 14, 2021
The world loves to whisper that Americans live to work. Is it true? Is it possible that we can have a six, or even a three-hour workday, but we just don’t want it?
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes infamously predicted that his grandchildren would eventually work a mere 15 hours a week. As far as I know, we only ever got as far as a…
