an apology for idleness

For years people measured their worth and their self-worth according to their labour.

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The idle man or woman was an unproductive drain on society. Creating nothing, generating no wealth.

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Now, we might be on the cusp of a world where the idle man or woman is the most worthwhile member of society.

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The one who has consumed least, polluted least, destroyed least, been the least precipitate in the rush towards the annihilation of the world as we know it.

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If the whole of Western society had been blessed with idleness, the air might still be clean, the seas full of fish, the jungles green worlds of their own.

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