The brilliant bourgeois national economist Keynes predicted in the 30s that today, at the end of the 1900th century and the beginning of the 2000st century, if we planned society well, we would have to work very few hours a week. Why is it not so today?
Keynes and social scientists after him predicted that the streamlining, rationalization, robotization and automation of working life would mean that around the turn of the millennium we would have to work very few hours a week if everyone shared the work and the profits better.
In the 80s, those in power on the right and even among leading right-wingers seem to have become afraid of what people would do with all the free time that division of labor could give them. Tom LO was persuaded to believe that reduced working hours were stupid. 30 hour work week was accused of being horrible Stalinist planned economy. The maximum tax was introduced so that people could work more and pay more in taxes.
In order to make people yearn even more to work for wages 40 h/week or more, the bourgeois first invented the word exclusion. Nevertheless, you are never as inside society as when you are referred to the social insurance system.
If we buy more, we can afford more welfare. If we buy less, society collapses, it was preached.
Can we get out of this unnecessary ideological propaganda for 40 h work/week for everyone? Can we instead share the work that the bourgeois national economist Keynes thought we would be smart enough to do?
Source:
My own memory and
http://schlaug.blogspot.com/2010/09/larobok-for-grona-politiker-del-1.html