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The future of work & leisure

We need to get rid of weekends
It’s not sustainable for all of us to work and play at the exact same time.
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Elle Griffin
Salary jobs are how we get the 20-hour workweek
If we can get more work done in less time, why not?
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Elle Griffin
You’d still work if you didn’t have to
But it would feel more like play.
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Elle Griffin
It's time to rethink "retirement"
We should take our retirement like we take our vacation days—whenever we want.
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Elle Griffin
Blue-collar jobs might be the best jobs
Things have changed since your grandpa worked the mines.
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Elle Griffin
Will we return to craftwork?
Our hobbies used to be jobs—in many parts of the world they still are—now we're turning them into jobs again.
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Elle Griffin
Yes, the future should be analog
Except for the things that shouldn't be.
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Elle Griffin
Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (re-visited)
An annotated reading of John Maynard Keynes' 1930 lecture about what 2030 might look like.
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Elle Griffin
Is it for work or for pleasure?
Perhaps it's both.
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Elle Griffin
Is your company wasting your time?
Thoughts on the 40-hour workweek.
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Elle Griffin
Are 20-hour workweeks on their way?
Or are we sticking with 40?
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Elle Griffin
Automation has already taken our jobs
We just invented new ones.
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Elle Griffin
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