On the 15 hour work week front: I think Keynes and other economists missed social trends here. What they didn’t predict was a culture that glorifies being busy.

On the 15 hour work week front: I think Keynes and other economists missed social trends here. What they didn’t predict was a culture that glorifies being busy. Look at the blogs from entrepreneurs in the past decade bragging about their 60 hour work weeks. To be clear, the vast majority of these people are lying, either to us or themselves. What’s important is not what they actually work, but the fact that claiming to objectively overwork is something that they feel is socially necessary.