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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] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

one of the main results out of the various UBI trials so far – even with a few so-called “freeloaders”, overall productivity goes up

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For the most part, people like to work. To feel like they're doing something, to be productive. This is within reason of course. The work should be something they enjoy, and no one likes being overworked.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

and bullshit jobs will burn you out just as much as overwork

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I absolutely don't like working. But I like things. My basic needs are insufficient for me to be comfortable and happy.

I would choose to work so I could go to the movies, buy video games, eat and drink decadent things, pursue hobbies, travel, etc.

Enough food, enough shelter, enough mobility, and enough telecommunication ironically isn't enough for me.

I've been fortunate to never have been only scraping by. I don't believe many people would choose it and it absolutely baffles me that so many people believe that so many people would.