there's the story that pre-colonial Hawaiians lived in abundance and basically didn't work for 4 months of the year (see e.g. https://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/home/HawaiiLaborHistory.ht... ). So that was a system where everyone could stop engaging in productive activity because as a society they agreed that they had "enough" for the year and it would be more fun to have a vacation than to have "more".