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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx
In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland
The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc
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Right? There's people still spouting that "all of that money from the pandemic" is somehow still sustaining the lives of thousands and thousands of people 4 years later.
I straight up told a coworker he's a "fucking dumbass piece of shit" if he thinks anyone is somehow still running on 2-3 checks of $1000 three years later, because either he's too stupid to realize that's only one week of pay for him or he has an ulterior motive for continuing to lie about something he knows isn't true. So which is it, dumb or lying, because we both know that's bullshit.
He stood there for a second staring at me and goes "yeah I suppose that's not THAT much..."
Of course absolutely nothing about his other right-wing bs changed but at least he hasn't brought up "pandemic money" again.
Seriously. They act like it's 1924 not 2024, when ~$3,000 was the equivalent of ~$55,000 today.