A 15-hour work week sounds too good to be true. Especially when many Australians work excessive hours, often for no additional pay, and struggle with the cost of living.
Yet economist John Maynard Keynes suggested in 1930 that the work week would be whittled to 15 hours by 2030, according to Dutch writer and historian Rutger Bregman. A United States Senate committee report in the mid-1960s predicted the work week would be down to just 14 hours by 2000, with at least seven weeks off a year.
"I think it's just extraordinary," Bregman said. "Until the 1970s almost all the economists, sociologists, philosophers, you name it, believed we'd be working less and less and less.
"It only started to change around 1980 – around the western world we started working more."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/95973282/Why-don-t-we-work-15-hours-a-week
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