RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116319335973025499
«One of the few economists to take seriously the idea that mental torpor can be a pleasant state was JK Galbraith, whose contribution to a collection of beach-reading essays in 1963 said that “Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt.” Unfortunately, he never really extended this insight into a more general economic theory»
#beaching

