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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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[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is kind of bullshit because any job that doesn’t immediately come to mind and can be used as a counter example can be hand waved away with “but I can picture it.”

Edit: someone in this thread used the example of a “a piggy sitting all day at a PC.” I didn’t realize we were cool with gatekeeping jobs. That’s not cool if you ask me.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you might be a lot less stressed if you stopped caring so much about what randos on the internet think about your job

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not stressed but thinks for your concern

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The weird thing is, my mind also immediately went for "pig in front of computer", but until this comment chain I didn't even notice the picture in my head defaulted to the pig stressed out and surrounded by empty cups of coffee.

Shit.