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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.

Bob Black

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.
BOB BLACK

Jobs Mean Observes Order Smugly
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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might Otherwise Play Voluntary
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
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
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Slave Typical Work
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
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
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Discrimination Employment Ends
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
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Application Coercion Law Sea Use
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
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
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
Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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Coercers Credentials Quibble Receiving
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
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

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