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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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It was 1940 when the 40 hour work week started, easy to remember, but is going to be real fucking depressing in 2040 when we haven't made anymore progress
We will and arguably already have progressed in the opposite direction.
Greece has a 6 day work week.
A single earner traditional household is basically impossible if you want to live in an actual house or nice apartment, for more and more people.
Huge explosion in people with multiple part time jobs, or some combination of gig jobs, functionally removing work free time and days.
Currently the class of people earning less than 60k a year are just going further and further into debt to afford to live.
That'll have to get paid eventually with either money from wealthier friends/family, or more work.
Oh right: less and less people have pensions, and social security benefits are so shit that many elderly and disabled have to keep working past "retirement".