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The habit of work has become ingrained in the greater part of the human species and not only the habit of work but, what is worse, the habit of looking for ways by which work can be made more productive. Nobody has thought for a moment that it might be a good thing if somebody could enjoy the produce of human labour. Our morality is ascetic, which makes us regard work as a virtue; it follows that production is good and consumption is bad. This ascetic twist has produced a world system in which half the world is poor because it produces too much and the other half because it consumes too little.
Source: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell’s American Essays, v.1 (1975)
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