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> In the 19th century, the idea of “leisure” versus “work” emerged.

huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium

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The favorable sense of otium in Ciceronian Latin reflects the Greek term σχολή (skholē, "leisure", a meaning retained in Modern Greek as σχόλη, schólē); "leisure" having a complex history in Greek philosophy before being used in Latin (through Latin the word became the root of many education-related English terms, such as school, scholar and scholastic).




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