3 Metaphors for absenteeism

In the Roman latifundia, which overspread central and southern Italy after the Hannibalic war, absenteeism was a chronic feature and a curse.

To train them was easy, and absenteeism was never a serious problem, as it is in other developing nations.

Absenteeism, therefore, (except as shown in the first Essay,) is a local, not a national evil; and the resort of foreigners, in so far as they purchase for unproductive consumption, is not, in any commercial country, a national, though it may be a local good.

3 Metaphors for  absenteeism