
Originally Posted by
Louis VI the Fat
'The right to rest and leisure'
This leisure needs to be put into practicable law. What was considered appropriate leisure fifty years ago is not appropriate by current standards. A foreign holiday was a luxury in 1950, reserved for only the very rich. Nowadays, it is so common amongst the working class, that to be deprived of it amounts to social exclusion.
Electricity, a telephone, access to bathing facilities at one point were considered luxuries too, but are now a basic right.
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