Sumak kawsay

And in the Andes, the idea that a good life requires limits, not endless extraction of anyone's labor or the Earth's, is not a new discovery of Western burnout research.

It has a name, Summa Causae in Quechua, usually translated as Buen Vivir, or Living Well, describing a life lived in community and in harmony with the natural world, rather than one organized around constant growth.

In 2008, Ecuador wrote it directly into a new constitution.

Bolivia did the same in 2009.