ESSAYS on THE NEW ECONOMY #1

A brief exploration of why we might not prioritize leisure in our lives and how it could have positive economic impacts if we were to do it differently.

Not so long ago a group of people ruling the known world with an imperial certitude (building roads, temples, marketplaces and other civic monuments developing cities as they went) was also debating the practical use of otium for non-active soldiers. Otium roughly translated means “leisure time, idleness, free time.”

Though the Romans fought many wars, t…