(Find the original post here) It was a cool, blustery, October morning in 2007 when I realized the difference between work and labor. I was standing on the side of a country road in Tumwater, Washington waiting for my work crew to come pick me up. I had moved from Tennessee to the area just days before…
Although I don’t necessarily agree with all of it (it seems to point any and all futurists or those interested in technologies potential for liberation as non-libertarian/anarchist) I think it makes this split apparent and its a good one to discuss either way: There are perhaps two principal, but very different, impulses for an emergent critique…
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In under four minutes Hughes talks about how work has been a tool for the ruling elite to enslave us, how work should be switched around from “five days on, two days off” to just working two days and having the rest of the week off and more.
All in all I found Morris’ essay mostly interesting when it talked about work directly and how he defined it and thought to improve it. His complaints about the system or his vague notions of how a socialist community would be former were neither interesting to me nor the point of why I was reading…