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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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It's not doublethink. It's the belief that separate classes of people exist - "hard workers" who "create value" and rightfully become rich - and "lazy people" who just work because they have to and would otherwise do nothing. The people who push this propaganda see themselves in the first group, and if they aren't yet rich, that's because the liberals and commies prevent it. And they see the majority of others in the second group.
Came to a recent epiphany that we have proof that people would still work even if basic needs were provided without worry...
Simulation Video Games
Many people, myself included, play a lot of job simulator games. I found myself asking, while playing some of these what makes this more fun than doing it in real life and the answer was almost always the pay for the job and the basic needs not existing.
Turns out, the old adage of giving someone UBI, and having it turn everyone into lazy layabouts, is bullshit. We may actually choose to work if we didn't have to worry about how the cost of my labor would need to be spent to keep myself alive, and not merely extra to throw back in the system.
Shipbreaker, Power Wash Simulator, and Euro Truck Simulator are a few games I've enjoyed playing, but would never do IRL.
Yep, conservatives think they aren't "poor", just a temporarily disgraced billionaire. They'll get it back in just a minute. You just watch.
Hey! Someone who understands the convoluted minds of conservatives!
I'll point out though, this isn't really a conservative mindset.... It's a capitalist mindset. The difference isn't obvious since almost every conservative I've ever known is a capitalist.