Why don't we work 15 hours a week? A 15-hour work week sounds too good to be true. Yet economist John Maynard Keynes suggested in 1930 that the work week would be whittled to 15 hours by 2030, according to Dutch writer and historian Rutger Bregman. A 15-hour work week might sound like a fantasy, but Henderson said: "In rich countries we no longer send 10-year-olds down coalmines. Henderson said a shorter work week and universal basic income were "utopian-pragmatic" reforms.

Source: Stuff August 20, 2017 21:33 UTC