It’s apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him.
BOB BLACKPlay is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
More Bob Black Quotes
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Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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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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People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
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The place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy’s ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody’s productive activity.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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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.
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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.
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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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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.
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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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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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