(Nick’s Notes: You can find the original post here) It’s Labor Day weekend, the national holiday created in 1887 to pacify American workers then being suppressed and killed by U.S. marshals and soldiers. So there’s probably no better time for me to re-examine my dogeared copy of Claire Wolfe’s manifesto How to Kill the Job…
This really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who looks at this site or hell, works a full time job, but the myth of the forty hour work week has been “determined” by a recent Gallup Poll. Of course, you should always take these sorts of things with a grain of salt,…
Look, I’m not a huge fan of politicizing people’s death and I would never try to use them carelessly for ideological purposes and really grimy shit like that. But look at this. Look at that and tell me (with your best straight e-face) that the current economic system and the way work…works, isn’t the reason why this…
So I’ve been invited to speak at this event. I’ll most likely be doing my AltExpo talk just slightly revised with things related to Austrian economics, given my audience. In other news: I apologize for the lack of content. Last weekend (yesterday, actually) was my birthday and the few days before that I didn’t have any content…
(Nick’s Notes: You can find the original post here) I recently came across this excellent video CGP Grey and felt the need to share it: His videos tend to be well made, and highly informative. I highly recommend of them to all my readers. This particular piece gives an excellent exploration of the inevitability of…
(Nick’s Notes: You can find the original article here) At Slate, Will Oremus raises the question “What if technological innovation is a job-killer after all?” (“The New Luddites,” August 6). Rather than being “the cure for economic doldrums,” he writes, automation “may destroy more jobs than it creates”: Tomorrow’s software will diagnose your diseases, write your…
Much Ado About Doing Nothing I was walking down the street, when this guy riding by in a pickup truck yelled at me, “Hey, freak, why don’t ya get a job?!?” If he could have heard me, I would have asked him, “Why would I want one?” The question would be sin-cere; I really don’t understand…
Herman J. Schuurman, Els van Daele, Work Is a Crime/ “De Moker” Group: the rebellious youth in the Dutch liberation movement in the roaring twenties, Roofdruk Edities, March 2013 This book starts with the manifesto “Work Is a Crime.” Herman J. Schuurman, a young anarchist who took part in the “De Moker” Group in 1924,…
Lazy Like Lions Colin Tudge, Neanderthals, Farmers & Bandits: How Agriculture Really Began, Yale University Prss, 1998 This short book (53 pages) is a clearly written essay exploring the fuzzy line between mere foraging (hunting and gathering) and cultivation. The author is not an “expert” in any of the specific fields one might think necessary…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the first of two reviews by Apio Ludd that highlight some books that I think us anti-work people may find interesting.) In Praise of Bartleby* Guillaume Paoli - Demotivational Training (Cruel Hospice, 2013) I approached Demotivational Training with low expectations. I have found most recent radical theory out of France to…