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There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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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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As far as I can tell no one was defending a "commerce-centric" worldview. Even in a world without work you still might want to wake up at a particular time. Maybe you slept late, maybe you need to wake up earlier than you naturally do, you might not have daylight to wake you, predisposed to sleeping loads, etc.
Well, I used a different D word than 'defending'.
Defaulting to a commerce-centric worldview in this context means being completely mystified as to why anyone might not want to wake up to an alarm, and finding a society that puts human needs first ridiculous.
The reality is that centering our lives around buying and selling things at the expense of untold human misery is itself ridiculous. Unfortunately it's also extremely prevalent.