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6: Stop Working so Much: In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

Made You Think

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In the past, there was a small leisure class and a large working class. The leisure class enjoyed advantages for which there was no basis in social justice. Without the leisure classm kind would never have emerged from barbarism. University life is so different from life in the world at large that men who live in academic mile tend to be unaware of the preoccupations and problems of ordinary men and women. Academic institutions are not adequate guardians of the interests of civilization when everyone outside their walls is too busy for unutilitarian pursuits.

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