Leisure society

Leisure society

The leisure society is an anticipated future society that will allow individuals to enjoy much more leisure time than today.

An assumed problem of the leisure society is a lack of motivations to follow higher-order volitions, which could lead to decadence.

See also

*Quality_time
*Post scarcity
*Utopia


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