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Bob Black11 quotes“Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.”
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Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
Bob BlackBob Black Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
Bob BlackBob Black Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Bob BlackBob Black Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
Bob BlackBob Black Just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.
Bob BlackBob Black You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
Bob BlackBob Black Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
Bob BlackBob Black Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
Bob BlackBob Black Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
Bob BlackBob Black You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
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