This is the type of analysis that concludes that the average person is a hermaphrodite, because the "average" is 50% male and 50% female. Mixes random associations without connecting them.<p>The conclusion is contradicted by assertions in the main body:
> Keynes expected technology to free us from work. And it did give us less work and more free time, ...<p>It did not lessen the work, it lessened the effort to perform certain tasks. Your free time is nibbled away from 5pm to 9am by your employer, plus if you are a parent by the extra hands-on-ness current schooling requires. Everyone has an Android or iOS crackberry now.<p>I also thought the 4-day workweeks went with longer workdays, at least some experiments did, in which case hours worked are about the same.<p>Just propaganda for the 60-hour work week to keep us all happy.
<i>"Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of "An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk."</i><p>An economist walks into a brothel?! Wait, is she one of these people who think that <i>Josefine Mutzenbacher</i> isn't satire but a roadmap?