To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
BOB BLACKWork is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.
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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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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
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A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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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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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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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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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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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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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, “one can at least change jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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I’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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