{"id":717,"date":"2005-05-19T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2005\/05\/19\/717\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:59:36","slug":"labour-vs-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/717\/","title":{"rendered":"labour vs. leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My economics class reminded me of my thoughts on our poor view. Economics (and most people, I think) see definitions like this:<\/p>\n

\n
labour\/labor<\/dt>\n
work<\/dt>\n
job<\/dt>\n
what one doesn’t want to do, but does for survival<\/dd>\n
leisure<\/dt>\n
what one wants to do, but does not aid in survival<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Whereas I see it like this<\/p>\n

\n
life<\/dt>\n
what one wants to do; what one makes of it<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My economics class reminded me of my thoughts on our poor view. Economics (and most people, I think) see definitions like this: labour\/labor work job what one doesn’t want to do, but does for survival leisure what one wants to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[110,108,109],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economics","tag-life","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}