“I don’t think we can all be working 15-hour weeks right now. But is the right number 25? 35?”
Don’t forget the human capacity to generate nearly illimitable make-work.
#postscarcity
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24065976/economists-post-scarcity-abundance-industrial-revolution-socialism-capitalism
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