Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.