Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week
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The Overworked American
i think we forget just how much work we've grown accustomed to. Ina post industrial society compared to previous societies, particularly if you go back to pre agricultural societies. And rgan state focus on the monodavit. I justread this amazing study looking at people's activity in hunter gatherer societies and they would spend something like 20 % of their time doing nothing. That there was a huge block of time. It wasn't just leisure versus work. It was actual sitting around doing nothing as was a significant part of the day.
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