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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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Okay, but, also?
Those migrant workers are so superexploited that they were considered cheaper before anti-imigration policies made them too scarce.
Slavery was here the whole time.
Maybe the issue isn't ultimately the immigration laws or the prison complex. Maybe they're just proximate causes, like symptoms of some deeper issue. Maybe it has something to do with greed and exploitation?
Idk just spitballing here
True. Many countries just opt for labour agreements with the origin countries that disadvantages the guest workers.
India’s Labour Agreements with the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Assessment
Laws and regulations can only go far to stop private citizens from abusing the weak and helpless, but it is better if they exist, there's a chance they may be enforced.
Idk..... That sounds a lot like commie talk and we can't cotton to that in the states.
/s but also not :( I wish the states had stronger labor laws that benefitted the worker and protected against exploitation