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Both John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes looked forward to a horizon of growing leisure: the reorientation of life away from the merely useful toward the beautiful and the true.
Maybe, many say, we are too ambitious and ought to enjoy a higher quality of life with more leisure.
People will never be happy with newfound opportunities for leisure if it seems to signal their failure relative to others.
Spend in haste, repent at leisure: America’s latest bailout planCambridge – With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style Great Depression, America’s politicians have adopted, virtually overnight, a $700 billon bailout plan to resuscitate the country’s rapidly deflating financial sector.
Americans spend on average 40% of their free time watching television, making TV the "800 pound gorilla of leisure time".
In effect, leisure is so privatized as to be isolating.
Economies of scale also allow the delivery of health, education, and other services, such as entertainment and leisure, at lower prices.
Indeed, strained by decades of governmental failure to curb massive unemployment, the French are nowadays often perceived as having retired from the political sphere to concentrate on their lives and leisure.
The challenge then would be to convert capital abundance into more leisure and balanced consumption.
The rising output per worker made possible by the increased use of robots and computers also will allow employees to work fewer hours and enjoy more leisure.
Making Retirement WorkMILAN – In most developed countries, a retirement of leisure is one of the great socioeconomic innovations of the past century.
By this they mean mainly ample consumption and ample leisure, together with public goods – for example, clean air, safe food, and safe streets – and civic amenities such as municipal parks and sports stadiums.
Walmart, for example, employs two million people, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that more than one million additional jobs will be created in America’s leisure and hospitality sector in the next decade.
For example, Iran’s mullahs shut down the air route between Tehran and Antalya because it gave Iranians access to “sinful” leisure in Turkey, but it was replaced by a Tehran-Sparta route, which flies Iranians 140 kilometers away just making the trip slightly longer!
Trends in leisure activities reflect that change: frugality and making do are in; gaudy consumerism is out.
The second was the view often associated with the Chicago School, according to which unemployment is a voluntary choice of leisure over work at whatever the offered wage.
Services are an important piece of China’s pro-consumption strategy – especially large-scale transactions-based industries such as distribution (wholesale and retail), domestic transportation, supply-chain logistics, and hospitality and leisure.
Europe’s Leisure TrapBlack Friday in the United States traditionally is the day after Thanksgiving that signals the start of the holiday season sale.
According to the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard, Europeans simply enjoy leisure more than Americans do, even if it means that they have less money.
Some economists point out that high tax rates in Europe make work less rewarding – and thus leisure more attractive.
Moreover, Blanchard fails to note that the preference for leisure is not gender-neutral.
The leisure trap thus keeps both the best educated and the least educated out of the workplace.
It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large-scale transactions-intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply-chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.
Busted BailoutCAMBRIDGE – Spend in haste; repent at leisure.
Even students studying creative and leisure disciplines must learn differently.
In the past three years, employment in construction has shrunk, but so has employment in manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information distribution and communications, professional and business services, educational services, leisure and hospitality, and in the public sector.
These realities were masked by the craziness that characterized America’s pre-2008 “Golden Age” of leverage, credit, and debt entitlement, which fueled a gigantic but unsustainable boom in construction, housing, leisure, and retail.
If governments cannot level the playing field in a global economy, they can at least equalize the enjoyment of a city during leisure time.
Many services cannot readily be mechanized or imported – old people cannot be cared for by a robot or from abroad – while people increasingly pay others to perform tasks that they once did themselves, freeing up their own time for more productive work or leisure.
In the face of a negative “shock,” workers will increase their leisure, causing output to fall.
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