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In the US, you're at least as likely to have half the population vote that anyone who cannot find a job should be exterminated, despite a large proportion of those voting for it being the very people most likely to become jobless, because Fox News will convince them it will mostly affect immigrants and/or some other group they're supposed to hate.
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this phenomenon is not limited to the US

see also: the German far right pending a takeover, or like, half of all politics in India

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How does the moral imperative of industriousness deal with all the skilled jobs being done by the computer?
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Keynes prediction more than panned out if you look at the population level.

Instead of everyone working less what happened is less people work. The fact that it took that specific shape is a source of A LOT of problems.

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More people work. Keynes died in 1946 - meaning they had grand depression in his lifetime. Moreover, women employment went up by significant amounts - middle and upper class women would not work back then.
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