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leisure
“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential assumptions: (1) that money, a vehicle we use to exchange value, is intrinsically linked to labor, and to separate the two would be like reversing gravity, and (2) that leisure is something lacking in
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Intentional leisure is not the absence of labor but the presence of purpose—the freedom to practice active rest that heals as an exploration that cultivates meaning. When we blend education and vacation as an integrated lifestyle it generates exponential value.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
what a beautiful framing of what the sabbath (day of rest) rules are meant to prevent/create:
"a giant, neutral non-compete clause. a solution to the problem of collective action. if i run a store and everyone else is gonna keep their store open, it's hard to shut my store down. but if everyone's shutting their store down, then I can do the same..."
Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure - By Ashley Whillans - Behavioral Scientist
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