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Russell argues for the four-hour workday

In "In Praise of Idleness", Bertrand Russell writes that if the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, "there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment." Using a pin factory that doubles its output, he shows how technology creates unemployment instead of leisure.

Source: Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (libcom)

Bertrand Russell in 1950.
Bertrand Russell in 1950. CC0

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