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In capitalist countries, there is an allegedly mysterious decline in leisure going on. Despite all the material wealth our labor produces, we’re able to consume less leisure as a consumer good, to use Mises’ framing.

This is not a mystery! We do not lack for the means to have fun. Kids haul rocks for fun. What we lack is *permission.* Our lives are circumscribed by the state and property. We toil not to buy leisure but to keep the capital class in leisure; every aspect of our lives is hemmed in, directed, monitored, managed, inspected.

We do not grudgingly engage in work so we can afford to joyfully engage in leisure. These are false distinctions. *Life doesn’t have to be this way.*

10/11

https://www.ft.com/content/9df289b9-d425-49e6-899f-c963b458625f