The Marxist Tradition
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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The Importance of Leisure
In the language of economics, human beings discover how to become more productive. If you are more able to produce more in the same amount of time, or to use less time to produce the same amount as you did before, it becomes possible for you to have free time. But there is, of course, a choice. You could decide not to have any leisure, to keep working just as long as you did,. but then you would get the benefit of more output than you need to survive.
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