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What the 15-Hour Work Week Prophets Failed to Account For
- bediger4000 7y agoThis article starts out OK, noting that all economists "blaime shortcomings of the individual" for why basically everyone world-wide has a 47-hour workweek. Then the author drives off a cliff of handwaving about economically out-competing everyone else by working harder, without giving any kind of argument beyond maybe middle-school economics. Given that in the USA median adjusted wages have remained unchanged for 40 years while workers' efficiency is usually considered to have increased by maybe 50%, the article's conclusions are unwarranted. Workers have improved, economic efficiencies have been adopted, as the article correctly notes.