You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
BOB BLACKPlay is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
More Bob Black Quotes
-
-
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 BLACK -
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
BOB BLACK -
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
BOB BLACK -
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
BOB BLACK -
Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
BOB 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 BLACK -
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 BLACK -
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
BOB BLACK -
Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.
BOB BLACK -
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
BOB 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 BLACK -
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?
BOB BLACK -
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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 -
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.
BOB BLACK