We shouldn’t be surprised the TUC is waxing lyrical about how robots and new technology will liberate us all to work less for the same money.
After all, no less an authority than Karl Marx claimed automation would help free the miserable proletariat from their drudgery.
John Maynard Keynes predicted in his 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren, that technology would allow people to work no more than 15 hours a week. ‘Three hours a day is quite enough,’ he opined. Keynes didn’t have any grandchildren, but if he had, it’s highly unlikely they would be basking in hours of […]
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