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Welcome to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about john Keens and his prediction that we’d be working a 15 Hour Workweek. Was he completely wrong in the idea that we’d be working a 15 Hour Workweek? I mean, 90 years ago, we were working in factories. There’s nobody working at computers, there’s people doing paperwork at desks, writing things out by hand. What happened? When you think about paperwork now is done so easily. We don’t have to calculate things like we used to. don’t even need to use a calculator anymore. We have computers to do all the work for us. You one person can do hundreds of times more work than they used to be able to way back then. And the crazy thing is not only have we become way more productive, but with technology advances, we actually work more than we used to not less. And it’s not because we like to because if you look at the statistics, most people have hate their jobs, they hate the people that they work with. But they have to provide for themselves they have to provide for their family. And everything they’re doing is taking them away from spending time with the people they love from doing the things that they like to do. So why are we working the same amount or even more than we did 90 years ago? Where did all that productivity go to? Who’s reaping the rewards? Well, obviously, it’s not you. It’s not the people that work nine to five jobs. They’re being exploited and expected to answer emails in the middle of the night balls, family time or time to sleep or time to relax, decompress. And if you look at the numbers, you can see who’s reaping the rewards of that productivity. It’s not the people that are actually producing. It’s the people that are telling them what to do. It’s the people that are the executives at the corporate giants. How was their pay increased by 300 times what it used to be while the people that slave away Continue to barely be able to make ends meet. Sometimes struggling sometimes having to work two jobs both parents away kids at daycare, stuck in traffic for hours a day, just so they can eat and put a roof over their heads. I asked you is this life you’ve been exploited. The promise was that technology would save you from working more. But in fact, it’s enslaved you to work even more dehumanizing you taking you away from your family, taking away your humanity. We’re not meant to live under stress all day long and fear what could happen, technologies meant to free us. But all the advances have shackled us more than ever before. And now it’s time for you to break those chains. It’s time for you to start taking control of your life. The more of us that step up and start using the system the way the corporate executives do, the less power they’ll be in their hands. Let’s power that the financial giants will have an always getting a bailout when they need it. It’s time for you to start turning the system in your favor. It’s time for us all to turn things around and make the system work for us. There’s no reason that we should be working more than 40 hours a week, sometimes 6080 hours a week just to make somebody else rich just to make ends meet for ourselves. And why because we were told to believe this and we did. Well, we need to tell them that it’s no longer acceptable. Start creating your own business so you can use the system to your advantage, to buy your own time to use technology to work those 15 hour work weeks that we were promised. It’s your time now to reclaim your life to reclaim your time. So you can spend it doing what’s important to you. And if you don’t know what that is, ask yourself what would you do? If you didn’t have to worry about money anymore, what would you do with your life? What would you do with