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136. Is Sloth a Sin or a Virtue?

No Stupid Questions

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What Is Positive Idiotness?

Bertrand Russell wrote that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work. He said without a considerable amount of leisure, a man is cut off from many of the best things. Andrew Yang: A universal basic income would provide a sort of safety net below which you would not fall. But it gets immediately to this question of is work itself and industriousness itself a virtue?

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