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Milton Keynes?

Once again, Boston University has a reason to be ashamed of its Economics department.

There was no famous economist Milton Keynes, just as there was no famous national leader Winston Mussolini. A slip of the tongue it's not. This is a promotional video after all.
Leaving aside the Milton Keynes (she crossed American economist Milton Friedman with the British economist John Maynard Keynes to come up with that puppy) flub, it is quite delusional to think people working a 15-hour week somehow is a vision of a better world. That's a dystopia.
The societal and economic progress we should all hope for consists in people being able to live their lives doing more and more meaningful (however they define it for themselves) and higher and higher quality work, not that people work less and less. Work is worship, not a curse.
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