Roland Karl Oscar Ericsson Paulsen (born 17 December 1981) is a Swedish author and sociologist.
[1] The dissertation was published at Cambridge University Press and received international attention from among others The Atlantic, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal.
He received his Ph.D from Uppsala universitet and is a docent in sociology; he is now active at the institution of business administration at Lund university.
[13][14] Paulsen considers it to be a waste of resources that peoples working hours hasn't decreased as technology has moved forward.
[15] Instead, Paulsen claims, that work takes on a religious function in contemporary society, and acts like a mechanism of distributing resources.