Leaving your home or village before marriage is a modern capitalistic thing For most of history moving out meant moving into an open space in the field next to your home and putting up a tent or cabin in a week Leaving home now is like getting out of a boat in the middle of the ocean

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“…would come to a stage where growth would end when mechanization would meet all real needs. Lafargue argued that the obsession society seemed to have with labour paradoxically harmed the productivity, which society had as one of its primary justifications for not working as little as possible.”

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“Automation, which had already come a long way in Lafargue's time, could easily have reduced working hours to three or four hours a day.”

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“Russell's book In Praise of Idleness is a collection of essays on the themes of sociology and philosophy. Russell argues that if the burden of work were shared equally among all, resulting in fewer hours of work, unemployment would disappear.”

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“As a result, human happiness would also increase as people would be able to enjoy their newfound free time, which would further increase the amount of science and art.”

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