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How shall we live wisely?

The article examines John Maynard Keynes' 1930 forecast about the future of the economy and human life. He predicted a reduction in working hours and the emergence of a new problem: the use of free time.


How shall we live wisely?

How to exploit the freedom resulting from economic necessities to live a dignified life, or as Keynes said: "How shall we live wisely?*

Great minds may embark on unexpected paths. He wondered: what will life be like in a hundred years? And his answer was: "The Depression will prove to be just a temporary setback, and economic progress will return to its positive path, and our grandchildren will be able to meet all their material needs by working only 15 hours a week.

But this will leave what Keynes called "the permanent problem of the human race." In 1930, John Maynard Keynes, setting aside his thoughts on the Great Depression, which had cost millions of people their jobs, wrote an interesting article on "The Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren."