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Rutger Bregman - "Utopia for Realists" and Big Ideas for an Equitable Economy

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The 15 Hour Workweek

The 15 hour work week is probably my favorite part of your book. How how does that even begin to work? Ye, it goes back to a very old idea, actually, of the economist john maynard canes. He wrote this essay in 19 30 that youn sort of make two predictions. The first prediction was we're going to be a lot richer in the future, if we don't make stupid mistakes like starting another wot war or ri surity during times of crisis. And e then he just extrapolate in a set we'll have a fift hour work week in two thousand 30. It's only around 19 80 that, you know, throughout the developed world

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