A lot of people are reacting to the first parts of the article (understandably so, since it’s such a long one). I’d recommend reading all the way through. It co

A lot of people are reacting to the first parts of the article (understandably so, since it’s such a long one). I’d recommend reading all the way through. It covers as well as criticizes Suzman’s work, and comes all the way up to Mills, Keynes, the USSR, and modern automation. I don’t agree with a lot of it, but I agree with the central idea that free time is interesting and worth studying. Personally, I hope we can shift the overtime bar from 40 hours to 32 hours in the near future, because if I understand my history, setting it to 40 is what hastened the work week we’ve considered normal for a century.