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Keynes predicts the 15-hour week for 2030

In the essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren", Keynes predicts that in a hundred years the standard of living will be "between four and eight times" higher. He warns of "technological unemployment" and suggests three-hour shifts or "a fifteen-hour week." His deadline falls in 2030.

Source: Keynes, Essays in Persuasion (Marxists.org)

John Maynard Keynes in 1933.
John Maynard Keynes in 1933. Public domain

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