Work Sucks. Here’s The Real Reason You Hate Your Job

Work should help us thrive, but our jobs leave us hopeless, exhausted, and deflated. Where did we go wrong?

Joel
An Injustice!
Published in
7 min readApr 5, 2022

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Economist and mathematician John Maynard Keynes made a bold prediction about the future of work. Back in 1930, he said that within 100 years — by 2030 — we’d be working a 15-hour workweek.

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