Anti-Job Pro-Freedom Quote Of The Week 161

Democratic theory requires that gains in productivity and leisure be treated as gains made by, and to be enjoyed by, the whole society, and that therefore the reckoning of men’s [sic] ability to use and develop their capacities must be made at any time against the standard of what that society as a whole can at that time afford to do by way of enabling all its members to use and develop their capacities.
C.B. Macpherson,

Democratic Theory,

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