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In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

Episode 79 Published 5 years, 8 months ago
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Special release for International Workers Day. Text of essay can be found here http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

Russell argues that if labour was equitably shared out amongst everyone, resulting in shorter work days, unemployment would decrease and human happiness would increase due to the increase in leisure time, further resulting in increased involvement in the arts and sciences.

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