VICE is commonly derided for having some outlandish articles. They seem to be a clickbait-based website, except that their clickbait has some sort of “cause” to it or it’s “wacky” in some sense. It’s very enmeshed with the alternative cultures of the day, or just whatever fad seems to be happening. On the other hand…
Well I was going to write about how your job is (likely) pointless and how that happens… But this is so much better! The snow cares not for your deadlines, your happy hour plans, your scheduled C-section. It wants only to fall on the ground and lie there. And it wants you to, too. Needless…
The Atlantic recently put out an article that had been making the rounds called Why Americans Work So Much. This article gets to the point faster than the last article I looked at that tackled similar themes. The article concludes that income inequality accounts for why we in the US have had increased production but…
As I mentioned before, I had been brought up on an episode of a podcast called, “Srsly Wrong”. The mention came in the form of a Facebook friend of mine commenting on my anti-work stance co-existing with a pro-market stance. The article I just linked goes into how I (briefly) rectify these two stances…a rectification…
Do you remember when I said I bought a bunch of books and I was going to review them for y’all? Yeah…I remember that too. Stalin’s Peasants: Resistance & Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization by Sheila Fitzpatrick is a book centered around the conflict of the mir and the kolkhoz. Fitzpatrick often uses…
Here’s something to say, “Yes!” about! (PDF here) After I posted my Towards an Anti-Work Education, my friend Outcide Catt, still looking for the last entry in issue 13 of their youth liberation zine entitled, No! Against Adult Supremacy, asked if I’d be interested in having it included. Naturally, I accepted and Outcide recently put…
I’m catching up with some 2016 articles on work now, so I thought I’d take a look at an article by Mike Dowson (no, not that one) called, Why are we Still Working? published on New Matilda, an independent news site for Australia. An article like that was sure to garner my attention, but the…
I’ve discussed Peter Gray before when I reviewed extrinsic and internal goals. As I said there, some of the research that Gray was using seemed shaky at best. Particularly in merely noting the correlation of various negative things that have happened to children in the last few decades with a lack of play. For example,…
We’ve discussed feminism a few times now (see here and here) and in keeping with that theme let’s talk about a particular troublesome branch of feminism. The liberal (or mainstream) forms of feminism. To take a popular version of a liberal feminist argument involving work: we should lean in to work instead of kicking back.…
Len Bracken is an interesting fellow. Bracken is something of a conspiracy theorist who digs the situationists, is anti-work and wants to reclaim conspiracies for the left. Conspiracy theories aren’t really my thing and I’m not so much interested (for now) in the situationists. But Bracken’s insistence on the importance of refusing and resisting work…
I don’t have much time to do this in so I’ll try to be brief. According to WordPress’s 2015 year in blogging: Abolish Work was viewed 14,000 times December 13th was our busiest day with nearly 500 views I posted 105 new posts, which led to there now being 266 posts on the site in…
My good ol’ buddy, Eben, sent me a link on how we’ve been historically moving towards longer lives and less work. Now, the CSS is very fancy and all that, but the real magic is here. If you’re click-shy, hat’s the study that all of these pretty graphs, charts, bars and whatnot are relying on.…
I’ve never read Viewpoint Magazine before and honestly, this interview didn’t leave with much of a solid impression. The text often relied on previous knowledge of certain thinkers, it used a lot of jargon (particularly Marxist jargon) and spoke with the confidence of someone who expects to be understood, yet isn’t saying much. As such,…
I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it! If you find [hard work] distracting, like your aluminum poles to replace the burdensome tree, and want to test your might in the feats of [slack], then you’re in luck! Okay…no, not really. I just wanted to rip-off an…
I: Most of the shifts I’ve worked in retail have been the so-called “graveyard shift”. Also known as the “late night shift” or “third shift”, it’s the time between when the store closes and opens back up. Or it’s between the times when most people are asleep and when they are awake. It’s also usually…