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Comment by crispyambulance

Read also a much better essay by a vastly more skilled writer with quite a different view, Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness."

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

Russell would say that people of the age to be tech start-up fodder should instead DO NOTHING. It's better for them and for society.

> I hope that after reading the following pages the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.

...and...

> I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

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