The primary human task is to increase idleness. Human history, in Idle Theory, has been a continuous attempt to increase or at least maintain idleness.
Technological development is seen as ultimately concerned with devising ways of increasing idleness.
But technological development only occurs within human societies, and human political organization, laws, and ethical codes are concerned with the distribution of idleness within society. Indexed here are a number of essays which explore these subjects. Early human life is assumed to have been difficult. The Rise of the Toolmakers Humans used tools to reduce their workload, and increase idle time. The Myth of the Golden Age The co-evolution of humans with their tools.