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Keynes was talking about work in every sense,including house chore. We're well below 15 hours of house chores by now, so that part became true.
by pmlnr 1y ago
Keynes was talking about work in every sense,including house chore. We're well below 15 hours of house chores by now, so that part became true.
- autobodie 1y agoSource? Keynes was a serious economist, not a charlitan futurist.
- itishappy 1y agoJohn Maynard Keynes (1930) - Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren > For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us! http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdf https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/cont...
- itishappy 1y agoWe've got 10 whole hours left over for "actual" work! (Quotes because I personally have a significantly harder time doing bloody housework...)
- leoedin 1y agoClearly you don’t have children!
- tim333 1y agoI was thinking it's a function of the social setting. Single bloke 1h/week. Couple 5h/week. With kids continuous. Or some such.
- leoedin 1y agoI imagine standards have also shifted. It just wouldn’t have been possible to wash a child’s clothes after one wear before the invention of the washing machine. People also had far less clothing that they could have even needed to wash.
- antonvs 1y agoLife pro tip: teach your children to do chores.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> Life pro tip: teach your children to do chores. Before teaching your children to do chores: x hours per week for chores After teaching your children to do chores: y hours per weeks to have annoying discussions with the child, and X hours per week cautioning the children to do the chores, and ensuring that your children do the chore properly. Here X > x. Additional time for you: -((X-x)+y), where X>x and additionally y > 0.
- nrclark 1y agoI did a lot of chores growing up. Looking back, X>x was true for the first few months of each new chore; but X died down to zero as time went on.
- LeonB 1y agoWashing machines created a revolution where we could now expend 1/10th of the human labour to wash the same amount of clothes as before. We now have more than 10 times as much clothes to wash. I don’t know if it’s induced demand, revealed preference or Jevon’s paradox, maybe all 3.
- tim333 1y agoI saw some research once that the hours women spend doing housework hasn't changed. I think because human nature, not anything to do with the tech.
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- Auracle 1y agoThat's nonsense. It used to take women a full workday per week just to wash clothes.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoWell, now we can own more clothes! And we can wash them more often! And rather than specialist washerwomen, everyone can/must use the laundry-room robots!
- tim333 1y agohttps://robinmarkphillips.com/household-appliances-made-life-easier/ https://robinmarkphillips.com/household-appliances-made-life... I've done some 3rd world travel without washing machines for a while and my laundry was once a week dunk stuff in the sink for 5 minutes with shampoo + rinse water, wring and hang up. I don't buy the whole day being necessary thing.
- B1FF_PSUVM 1y ago> We now have more than 10 times as much clothes to wash. OK, but I doubt we're washing 10 times as much clothes, unless are people wearing them for one hour between washes...