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Work Futures Weekly | For The Greatest Good Of Everyone
| Hard Work | Wellbeing? Ha! | US Treats Its Workers Worst | John Maynard Keynes | Bulletproof Backpacks | It’s Bosses, All The Way Down |
Shelter Island NY — 2019–08–18| Perhaps weekly is the wrong word, but here are the highlights of the last few Work Futures Dailies I sent out.
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The quote of the week is by John Maynard Keynes, and from which I’ve drawn the title of today’s weekly. I almost entitled this issue ‘Bulletproof Backpacks’ but that was a step too far, even for me.
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