Is universal leisure possible?
Ecology seems to suggest that it is. There are plenty of organisms in nature that thrive even though they don’t engage in anything that is really analogous to labor, particularly once you leave the animal kingdom. They metabolize, but they’re no more conscious of this than we are. They reproduce, but they do not necessarily mate. Many of these creatures…
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