So your ideal society would have people working like ants all of their waking time just to satisfy the ideal of maximizing economic output? That’s moronic. When does it STOP?

There are non-monetary virtues in life. Like having time to spend a lazy Saturday morning in bed, screwing the brains out of your significant other. Or spending a week hiking with family. Or just spending a day relaxing in the park, reading for pleasure, not doing much of anything.

And when do people have time to use all of those services that you think of as being so damned important. Work for the sake of work itself isn’t a virtue.

Typical American, buying into the Puritan work ethic (at least for others) hook, line, and sinker. How does that KoolAid taste?

Incidentally, the same person (Keynes) who coined the phrase “Paradox of Thrift” also supported and predicted much shorter working days going forward. Something like 3-4 hours average due to automation.