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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the thirteenth year of my illustrious career in accounting. You really get to see the dark underbelly of humanity.

I used to be a social person.

Now I'm a misanthropic agoraphobe who generally avoids human interaction to the fullest extent possible.

Fifty percent of this is the people I work for and the general environment, the other fifty percent is how dishonest and abusive the clients can be.

Anytime you're dealing with somebody's personal finances, it gets ugly. I'm sure that insurance has parallels to my experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

As someone who spent weeks trying and failing to hire an accountant, this explains a lot.