Despite Keynes’s forecast, we are living in a leisure desert. At least our kids are happier

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• squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I failed to grasp the point of the article tbh but

  but wanted to mention I feel a lot of leisure is getting gobbled up by hobbies or chores or less heavy work but still kind of work (like managing social media for example) - labor seems to continue no matter how it's sliced

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  • Monarque@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I just found the numbers quite informative, and the fact that at one point they predicted that we would be working less & less & less is ... interesting! Certainly didn't work out.

    And with the pending food & energy crises, it seems doubly funny.

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