Nick’s Notes: This post was originally published on the Center for a Stateless Society. Michael Gibson tries to demonstrate the infeasibility of a universal basic income by showing that people actually like to work, as evidenced by the increase of hours relative to increased prosperity witnessed during the 20th and 21st centuries. According to him,…
It’s time for my yearly excursion out to the Free State Project’s festival. I help run an event called the Alternatives Exposition and part of our goal is to shift libertarians more towards the left. It’s a difficult (and some may argue “dirty”) job but someone’s gotta do it! I’ll see y’all back here in…
If I was as witty as Jennifer Matusi’s article Abolish All Work Immediately from Counterpunch then I’d remark that my nosebleed that I got after finishing this article (for the second time) was from the article and not from picking at my (congested) nose. But no one is apparently as witty as Matusi as they…
Well, not really. I’ve got a moderate case of strep throat (coughing, congestion, general physical weakness) and it’s really disrupting my routines to the point that I’m not going to be posting on the site for the next few days or so. Gotta rest up and try to see when I can start posting on…
I’m something of a feminist and so when I saw that Ali Wong’s stand up special on Netflix openly declared she was going to explain why feminism was “terrible”, I eye-rolled. Someone who has to make a big deal out of general ideological statements in their stand up special would probably come off to me…
I’ve tried to be coy about my declining enthusiasm and interest with this book but it’s becoming harder and harder to do. It isn’t that the book isn’t well researched, written or composed, it’s just not exactly what I thought I was going to get. My impression was that Fitzgerald would spend much of the…
10 years ago the Devil was having a good day, I imagine. I’ve submitted my final draft of my manuscript and am waiting on the publisher to see what they think. Without further ado, let’s check on how May went! Abolish Work Stats for May 2016 I posted 12 times (17 last month) 9 of which…
One of the main ways that anti-work advocates sometimes envision an alternative world is the broadening of games. Why so? Largely because games are by definition voluntary, done for their own sake and involve the active and enthusiastic participation of all involved. The consequences are sometimes (though not always) trivial and thus more flexibility can…
Before we get started on today’s entry I want to announce that I’ve moved from my previous residence to a temporary place. It has superior internet but it also has rent to pay and other various costs that I’ll now have to deal with. Given this I’ll likely be employed sometime in the next few…