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Leisure Society Tends Toward Debasement
Given human nature, a society of guaranteed basic income and pure leisure would, without entirely novel forms of communal and political self-restraint, default into round-the-clock entertainment, addiction, and debasement, as evidenced by aristocratic decadence across generations and current trends of people defaulting to addictive devices rather than flourishing.
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Ross DouthatEvidence Quote
“if you think about the stereotypes of the third generation rockefeller or vanderbilt as opposed to the first one... they're out sort of wasting their inheritance and and squandering it and being you know yeah being sort of debased and and decadent”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:04:37 AM
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