The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic 🔗 🇺🇸 🗣

For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.

In his 1930 essay ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,’ the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent of a five-day weekend. ‘For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem,’ Keynes wrote, ‘how to occupy the leisure.’