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Manual labor and commerce were largely relegated to slaves and non-citizens, freeing the elite to devote their time to governance, education, and cultural enrichment. While this exclusionary model is ethically problematic by modern standards, it underscores the high regard in which leisure was held as a state essential for higher-order thinking. 0.3 Plato, too, extolled leisure as the soil in which intellectual and moral virtues could grow.