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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

Bob 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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Chance Stupid Television
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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Activity Economic Forced Giving Landing Order Police Question
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.
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Adult Business Employs Ordinary Rather
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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Stupid Teacher Work
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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Landing Law Sides Want
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.
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Corporations Libertarian World
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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Creeping Education Significant Work
Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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Decade Foreman Order Supervision Week
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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Consist Dissidents Distinguishable Parasite Press Randie Soviet
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Misery Source World
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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Another Change Freedom Master State Subjection
Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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Coercers Credentials Quibble Receiving
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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Anarchy Better Get Minus
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Evil Names Order
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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Constituent People Stupid Thinking
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Application Coercion Law Sea Use
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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Jobs Mean Observes Order Smugly
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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Almost Designing Living Suffering Working
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Inspiration Maps Mean
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Slave Typical Work
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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might Otherwise Play Voluntary
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
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Discrimination Employment Ends

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