• Sertou@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a difference between contributing to society by performing productive or helpful labor, and the sort institutionalized wage slavery we currently call “work.”

    Most of us are subject to the tyranny of the clock, petty bosses, arbitrary rules about where we work or how we dress. This is what we never opted into and can opt out only after a lifetime of it or at great cost in terms of our ability to provide the necessities for ourselves.

    Anarchist Bob Black explores this distinction in his essay, The Abolition of Work. I recommend reading it.

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      1 year ago

      True, but honestly I think the only solution to such wage slavery is basic universal income, which is something truly hard to achieve in my ignorant eyes.

      Once people feel/know that they can go on without a job, those who do have one, either because they want more or want to dive and contribute back to a certain area, would not subject to unfair conditions regulating everything in and related to work from

      tyranny of the clock, petty bosses, arbitrary rules about where we work or how we dress …

      Thanks for the recommendation will give it a look.