Keynes’s essay In 1930, the eminent economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a fascinating tract called Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren. In this essay, Keynes was looking ahead to what life would look like a hundred years hence—to our own era, basically. He displayed a strongly optimistic view on the nature of technological progress, expecting the standard of living to be between four and eight times higher. This would allow what Keynes called the economic problem to be solved. In other words, we would move from scarcity to abundance, where all would have their needs met and poverty would be eliminated. In possibly his most utopian prediction, he thought that people would opt for much more leisure, and only need to work fifteen hours a week.
Is it not the case that work is a punishment for Original Sin in Genesis 3?