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Industry which is purely monotonous, burdensome, uninteresting, uneducative, which contains within itself no elements of enjoyment, cannot be fully compensated by alternate periods of consumption or relaxation.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)