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We have the tools and technology to work less and live well

8 mins | Oct 28, 2019
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Re-thinking work: If we are not advancing technology to reduce our 40 hour weeks, what is it all for? The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 society would have advanced so far that we would barely need to work. So why are we not working less? Toby Phillips writing in Aeon magazine examines.

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