Increasing labor productivity and the future

This page is loosely associated with What It Means That an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food, chapter one of The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen -- and What to Do by D. Berleant, published by the Lifeboat Foundation<ref>Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology (Oxford University Press US, 1999), p. 25. ISBN 0-19-514338-8 ISBN 978-0-19-514338-6</ref>. It is for crowd sourced commentary and additional information about that and related topics. All readers are invited to request an account permitting edit access to this wiki. Just send your request to: [email protected].

Labor productivity is so high we could all live comfortably working much less than we currently do. What does this mean? Will we work fewer hours in the future than we do now?

Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid (Template:IPAc-en)<ref>Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: "Ovid"</ref> in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love"). His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.<ref>Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology (Oxford University Press US, 1999), p. 25. ISBN 0-19-514338-8 ISBN 978-0-19-514338-6</ref>