Ed Huntress wrote:

There's some serious questioning going on about the premises of the
free-market model, but we went through that in the '30s, too. So I don't
make too much of it. But I had a feeling about reaching this moment in
history 'way back in the early '70s. I was covering automation and computers
were just starting to get involved. It looked then like we wouldn't need a
lot of people in the future. My thoughts then were that we would simply
shorten the work week, like France was doing at the time. But capital
doesn't like to be spread around. g


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