Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren

Secretary Pete Buttigieg: The American Dream Is DEAD. We're Running Out Of Time To Fix It!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 3 August 2026. The book comes up at 43 min 54 sec in.

The speaker references Keynes's 1930 essay as a way of framing the AI and automation debate: Keynes predicted productivity would rise five- to eightfold by 2030, allowing people to work only 10–15 hours a week. The speaker notes the productivity forecast is nearly on track, but the reduced working hours are nowhere in sight, and attributes the gap to policy and social choices about how gains are distributed.

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