In his essay on the ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren’, first published in the 1930s, Keynes predicted that advances in production technology might reduce work time and allow the population as a whole to work less – as little as fifteen hours per week by the year 2030. Keynes discussed this in terms of the ‘economic problem’ (of scarcity, there not being enough goods to go around) having finally been ‘solved’ by society.在他首次发表于20世纪30年代的《我们后代的经济前景》一文中，凯恩斯预测生产技术的进步可能会减少工作时间，并允许全体人口减少工作——到2030年每周仅需工作15小时 。凯恩斯认为这代表社会最终解决了经济问题（即稀缺性，没有足够的商品分配） 。-----------------------A politics of time is necessary because the development of the productive forces may, of itself, reduce the amount of labour that is necessary but it cannot, of itself, create the conditions which will make this lib...