"How many hours per week do I need to work to sustain my lifestyle?" I was reading a biography of William Godwin who made this calculation in the 18th century:

"How many hours per week do I need to work to sustain my lifestyle?" I was reading a biography of William Godwin who made this calculation in the 18th century: "In 'a state of equal property,' the amount of labor required to produce necessities, being shared among the community, would be so slight that few men would shrink from it. Godwin anticipates Kropotkin and other later political thinkers in an elaborate discussion of the quantity of labor necessary each day if the production of luxuries were suspended. He estimates it at half an hour per day." page 92. http://books.google.com/books?id=8GMqJEznW8gC&pg=PR10&dq=william+godwin+biography&lr=&cd=1#v=snippet&q=labour&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=8GMqJEznW8gC&pg=PR10&#3...