It all stems from a flawed legal assumption made in 1838 — In 2019, 18% of the US workforce (28M workers) qualified as self-employed in their tax return, stealthily sneaking up from 10% in 1981. Many analysts expect more and more people to qualify as independent contractors as the digital economy and freelancing expand. At the same time, a contentious policy war…

Shorter workweeks will boost our productivity and quality of life — In 1930, the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes sat in his armchair and thought about what his great-great-grandkids’ generation would be doing in the year 2030. Based on the way things were going, he mused that people in industrialized nations like the UK and US would work less and…