Doesn't even look like he's working in some open concept hellscape.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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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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I'm jealous of the guy in the GIF.
He's got cubicle walls, must be doing well for himself.
Yeah, lucky bastard has a wall behind him instead of a hallway.
“I know what’ll cheer me up after spending my morning trapped in a sadness cubicle! I’ll browse some lemmy and take a little break”
*scroll*
*scroll*
…
sigh
*puts phone away*
Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, TAB, Ctrl-V,Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V,Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, TAB TAB Ctrl-C TAB, Ctrl-V, AHHHH DAMNIT ! Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z ....
but think of all the profits our owners are having! it's all worth it
For anyone not yet radicalized, Wage Labor and Capital is an easily-digestible introduction to leftist critique of Capitalism, and it's free to read online.
A great source and I would love to add "capitalist realism", to follow on. More of a short philosophical intervention.
Reminds me of this bit from an interview with Jimmy Carr.
I think Jimmy's right. Personally I think Maslow's pyramid is backwards, it's exactly the struggle for the bottom tier that fills out the top as a consequence.
In a world where the ground levels of Maslow's hierarchy (physiological needs and safety) are not a given you absolutely need your peers to attain them. Love, esteem and self-actualization follow from it; you work together to achieve a goal and by achieving it you gain connection, (self) respect and the ability to live in accordance with your nature.
Ironically, by having all of your needs taken care of almost by default, life becomes devoid of meaning. We are robbed of the ability to gain self-reliance; any and all prerequisites that deliver what takes care of your needs are outside of our control entirely. How well we are off is mostly a matter of things like happenstance of birth, the current economy, the decisions the company you work for makes, whether or not the bank approves you for a loan, gas prices, food prices, electricity prices, none of which you have any control over.
Before the industrial revolution life was not a cake walk. Even basic things like having enough to eat, basic medical care, clothes, warmth and light were HARD to come by, but it's the struggle that makes it worth it. I realize I'm saying this as a white, heterosexual, pudgy, Western European male. In terms of material and societal wealth I might as well have won the lottery.
In terms of the meaning I find in my life I have lost.
Yeah but you can still pursue other goals. Help a charity or work on an important project with people and the meaning is there. It's just not forced on you as part of surviving anymore
The goal of white supremacy is to make whiteness the default race or the only race. As such, white people are necessarily deprived of racial and cultural identity. White people in the new world and the imperial core need to invent cultural identities like "nerd", "scene", or "punk" in order to have one. White Supremacy is cultural nihilism.
You guys need hobbies
Who has time for hobbies?