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Why are we still working this hard?
In 1973, what a forty-hour week of work produced takes sixteen hours to produce today. That’s according to Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input output tables. An hour of work in American business now makes two and a half times what it made in 1973. For every forty hours that used to be needed, twenty-four […]
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| Nov 11, 2026 | Why are we still working this hard? by Wilsoniumite | 142 | 137 |
