In Praise of Idleness
people “mistake leisure for idleness, and work for creativity.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Keynes underestimated the many roles that work plays in our lives beyond our economic needs, but the question he raised was the right one: how will we organise liberated time in ways that are meaningful and satisfying? Will we see ever more refined subcultures of hedonism,
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen instead to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have contin... See more
harpers.org • In Praise of Idleness
It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the hea... See more