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When John Maynard Keynes Predicted a 15-Hour Workweek “in a Hundred Year’s Time” (1930)
Image by IMF, via Wikimedia Commons That which stands first, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is ease with dignity. —Cicero, Pro Sestio, XLV., 98 There is much to admire in Roman ideas about the use of leisure time, what Michel Foucault referred to as “the care of […]
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