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Liberals say we should end em...

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

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... the place where [adults] ...

... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

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[Libertarians] don't denounce...

[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

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Some people giving orders and...

Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

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You are what you do. If you d...

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

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I'm the out-of-court jester w...

I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?

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Unlike side issues like unemp...

Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.

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Work is the source of nearly ...

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

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Leisure is non-work for the s...

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

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I call for a collective adven...

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

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People aren't as stupid as th...

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

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Play is always voluntary. Wha...

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

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The reinvention of daily life...

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

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You are what you do. If you d...

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Bob Black 29 quotes

Work is the source of nearly a...

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

Bob Black 29 quotes

People aren't as stupid as the...

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Bob Black 29 quotes

Work is the source of nearly a...

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

Bob Black 29 quotes

Looking for work sounds almost...

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

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Liberals say we should end emp...

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Bob Black 29 quotes

A [typical] worker is a part-t...

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

Bob Black 29 quotes

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