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In 1930 Keynes predicted we’d have a 15 hour work week “within a 100 years”. Only 9 years to go...



I was going to write: and that's sort of come true, if you care about having a similar standard of living to an average person in Keynes' time. But then there's housing, and that idea falls apart.


See, but he was smart enough to list a date so far in the future that no one could call him on it...




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