5. The Work Episode: Kill the 40 Hour Work Week

I'M THE VILLAIN

English - June 27, 2019 00:57 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
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Keynes predicted by now we would have a 15 hour work week. What happened? Why are we even using an archaic time-based system for intellectual labor? What's the alternative? Is the workforce of the future going to be dominated by women because they dominate the fields that are hardest to automate, like teaching and caregiving? We talk about all this and other things that are fucked up about the workforce and work culture that Americans just seem to take for granted.

Link to Statestarcodex article on taking adderal just to keep yourself focused at work: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

Link to Yuval Noah-Harari's TED talk on how feeling embodied makes us live more fulfilling lives: https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_nationalism_vs_globalism_the_new_political_divide?language=en#t-1022797

Link to the Metafilter thread on Emotional Labor: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUtabEk/view?pref=2&pli=1

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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