A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
Liz Stinsoneyeondesign.aiga.org
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A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
The removal of economic security for working people dissolves those boundaries—eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will—so that we are left with twenty-four potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles.
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