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by hliyan 2810 days ago
On the topic of idleness, you may also find Russell's In Praise of Idleness interesting (it has been discussed on HN before)

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

It is where the following famous quote comes from:

"First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so."