Anti-work quotes

POV: You work with a Scandinavian

https://youtu.be/S-XlGIod1CI

"We long ago reached a point where hand-built furniture became a luxury good and, in many ways, that should serve as an indicator to many how little their dollar is actually worth now. When the makers can't afford their own work, something is wrong. Carpenters living under bridges (yes that has been a real thing for years in Vancouver), grocery store workers going hungry, daycare workers unable to afford having kids of their own... This system is not sustainable and it's up to us to build our own alternatives that cut the rulers out. Parallel economies that resist the hoarding of wealth. Things like time banks. And in order for these things to be possible, we also need universal healthcare, which is why the ruling class seeks to end it across the globe. Our personal wealth is a sham. Our possessions are low quality and fleeting. Fast fashion is, ultimately, a subscription service. Ovens are designed to break within 8 years. If your health declines and you need medication, your health becomes a subscription service, too, dependent on the exploitive system we live under. Meanwhile, billionaires scribble on paper and declare they now own vast swaths of farmland that they'll use as a vacation spot once every 10 years. But this system requires our ongoing cooperation. We can stop cooperating by building off-ramps together. Even small changes will make a difference." — Nic the Briny

video: thegreekachilles

valuing someone based on how productive they are is dehumanising

what is the point of an organized economy if we are working ourselves to death and for practically nothing at all?

no shame in admitting this. we need to abolish forced labour.

things you don't need to feel guilty about

soft launch your sick leaves and go on long sick leaves

the real revolution is when we no longer force anyone to work and find ways of managing things collectively and voluntarily, without direct or systemic coercion

i turned my job rejection emails into a song — ezgi karaoglu

even if you can you shouldn't 😁

"... rather than be exploited they would refuse waged work, rather than be forced into poverty they would steal, rather than vote they would riot, rather than 'make propaganda' in the army they would refuse to do military service altogether, rather than complain about their situation they would take immediate direct action to improve it. These were the sort of attitudes expressed by the new generation of rebels who had responded to the theory and practice of anarchist-individualism." – Richard Parry, The Bonnot Gang

"Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the legend which represents wagedom as the best incentive to productive work. If industry nowadays brings in a hundred times more than it did in the days of our grandfathers, it is due to the sudden awakening of physical and chemical sciences towards the end of last century; not to the capitalist organization of wagedom, but in spite of that organization." — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread photo: workers in Jharia Coal Mine

'The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. All things are for all. Here is an immense stock of tools and implements; here are all those iron slaves which we call machines, which saw and plane, spin and weave for us, unmaking and remaking, working up raw matter to produce the marvels of our time. But nobody has the right to seize a single one of these machines and say, "This is mine; if you want to use it you must pay me a tax on each of your products," any more than the feudal lord of medieval times had the right to say to the peasant, "This hill, this meadow belong to me, and you must pay me a tax on every sheaf of corn you reap, on every rick you build." All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!' — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892)

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