Resurrected John Maynard Keynes Yells at Everyone for Ruining 15-Hour Work Week Dream

In a scathing press conference, resurrected British economist John Maynard Keynes expressed profound irritation with modern workers, explaining that his famous 1930 prediction of a 15-hour work week failed only because of people’s insistence on buying useless garbage.In his seminal essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” Keynes calculated that industrial efficiency would easily cover basic human needs by the twenty-first century.“I gave you the math for a three-day, maybe even a four-day, weekend forever,” Keynes shouted, waving a yellowed copy of his manuscript. “All you needed was food, shelter, and modest leisure. Instead, you built six-thousand-square-foot houses with bathrooms that nobody uses and bought a new SUV for every member of the family.”Keynes went down a detailed list of modern expenditures that he claims forced humanity back into forty-hour work weeks.“Why is college one hundred thousand dollars a year, and then right after that you go to grad school?”…

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