February 20, 2023

Politics: Are We Allowed to Be Lazy?

4 minutes

😴 There couldn't be a better moment in time to talk about Paul Lafargue's manifesto "The Right to Be Lazy" (1880). With the protests taking place in France against the pension reform, as well as the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence replacing more and more jobs, should the debate be about the right to work or the right to to be lazy?

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