Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose discusses work and life in the age of automation. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini, AFP/Getty Images) A 15-hour work week. That’s what influential economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied in his famous 1930 essay " Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren ," forecasting that in the next century technology would make us so productive we wouldn’t know what to do with all our free time.
This is not the future Keynes imagined.
Many higher income workers put in 50 or more hours per week, according to an NPR/Harvard/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation poll. Meanwhile, lower-income workers […]
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