> It would be feasible to reduce hours of work and release workers for the pleasurable activities of free time with families and communities, but business did n

> It would be feasible to reduce hours of work and release workers for the pleasurable activities of free time with families and communities, but business did not support such a trajectory. This may be an explanation for the failure of John Maynard Keynes' prediction in 1930 that the working week might drop to 15 hours a week, with people choose more leisure as their basic material needs were satisfied.