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The Abolition of Work
As we so often repeated, what we need is more time, more money, not more work. And we need day care centers, not just to be liberated for more work, but to be able to take a walk, talk to our friends, or go to a women’s meeting.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false i... See more
Buckminster Fuller
What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the e... See more
David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Yet it is the peculiar genius of our society that its rulers have figured out a way, as in the case of the fish fryers, to ensure that rage is directed precisely against those who actually do get to do meaningful work. For instance: in our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less
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