ДОКОГА ЩЕ РАБОТИМ ТОЛКОВА МНОГО ПРИ ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ, ЧЕ МАШИНИТЕ ВЪРШАТ ВСЕ ПОВЕЧЕ ВМЕСТО НАС: ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕН НАПРЕДЪК, ИКОНОМИЧЕСКА СТОЙНОСТ, СТАТУСНА НАДПРЕВАРА И СОЦИАЛЕН КОНТРОЛ
WHEN WILL WE STOP WORKING SO MUCH, NOW THAT THE MACHINES ARE INCREASINGLY DOING IT FOR US: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, ECONOMIC VALUE, STATUS COMPETITION, AND SOCIAL CONTROL

Summary/Abstract: This article summarizes arguments in the economic literature for decreasing the work week with rising productivity of labor due to the introduction of modern technology – automatization, robotics and artificial intelligence. Explanations are gathered for the allegedly paradocial increase in working times in last decades ranging from conspicuous consumption tournaments, wealth, network and rebound effects, uneven productivity gains in economic sectors, outsourcing, cultural inertia, virtue signalling, and social control.

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