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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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this has severe conservative energy. the fuck is this even supposed to mean? if you're paid for it, it's a job, dumbass. that's literally the only metric.
But what does it even gate keep against...?
There are lots of things you wouldn’t see in a children’s book
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Marlon_Bundo
A human pet is a bit different than an animal pet
Also not a pig
Your statement prior to my link was that "There are lots of things you wouldn’t see in a children’s book" which I have sufficiently defeated quite handily. Since you seem unsatisfied, how about this:
I wouldn’t say having a pet bunny is bad, even if it is gay
As for a serial killer thriller book. I don’t think it’s intended for children there have been adult comic books before
I think you are intentionally lying to be contrarian
Lmfao
This dude can parse images but holds converation worse than AI.
I think it's alluding to the theory set out in this book:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
well at least this is a more specific take and, apart from duct tapers, seems roughly sensible in what it's trying to say, if i understood correctly from my cursory glance, that jobs should be more fulfilling than making the elite feel better.
but the tweet is doing a very bad job if this is really what they're alluding to. the tweet's framing is more similar to reactionary rhetoric against sex work, entertainment and art, clean jobs, and basically anything that's not coal mining.
Oh, I can definitely see an animal doing sex work in a... Not-children's book. I think that's the whole idea behind furries.
It's the "children's book" bit that's the important bit though. Basically he's advocating for a child's view of the world, where a job requires hitting things with a hammer.
The irony of course been that the artist who drew that book, presumably wouldn't be considered to have a worthwhile job by this philosophy.
I think it's trying to say that intellectual jobs are not jobs. Which is demonstrably not true.
If all the investment bankers went away we'd probably be fine but if all the cyber security experts went away there'd be a big problem. The job is labour intensive, but one of them is much less important than the other.