Something has gone eerily wrong since the 60's. A number of technological innovations resulted in massive productivity gains, yet those gains never manifested in better working conditions. Our working days get longer and longer, our salaries stagnate and our work ethic is getting increasingly aligned to the old German dictum “Arbeit macht frei ”.
In this blog I intend to run a weekly series of short articles on how we got ourselves into this mess and what can be done to get away from it.
Much of the discussion will be based around Bertrand Russell's “In Pursuit of Idleness”. Anyone out there interested in this should get a copy of the book. It's cheap, small, easy to read, and provides the reader with a fascinating ride into the thoughts of one of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers this world has ever known.
I will try concluding every article with a relevant link/title to a comic, movie, song, film or book.
For this week, let's have a look at one of xkcd's best.
http://www.xkcd.com/137/
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