VICE News had a recent bit on millenials (that devilish demographic that shuts down any business in sight) and their lack of engagement on work. There were a few other subjects brought up but this was the main subject of the video and the one I most want to focus on for this article…which you…
It gets tiring to always argue against people’s preconceptions or ideas about work. Lots of people in the world (not necessarily incorrectly) see work as “effort”. That makes sense given that this is how people often use it. But this is complicated by the fact that people also say things like, “I’m going to…
Articles can have great titles but then go off into tangents that make you go, “What the heck? Why is this article comparing a conflict over Pokemon with Muslims and Jewish people?” Okay, so most articles don’t make me specifically say that…but this one did. Before we get to that though, let’s start at the…
A fan on Twitter linked me this article about the hardships of being unemployed and looking for a job. As someone who #knowsthosefeels, a lot of the points struck true for me. I’m not so much into Marxism or that part of the left but the personal stuff was really depressing but in a very…
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that I think there’s at least a few problems with modern day work. In no particular order, here are some of my biggest issues with work, as it exists: It’s quasi-compulsory: Artificial scarcity enforced through laws, regulations and especially intellectual property sets up barriers, which makes it harder for people to…
Nick’s Notes: This is one of those articles I’m writing at the request of a fan of the site! You can see previous efforts alongside similar lines here and here. This is another one of those blogs where I’m not going to bother with a fancy title. What you see is what you get on…
Nick’s Notes: This is another one of those questions I got from fans of the site. You can see the last question I addressed in this post, where I talked about the prospects about technology and alienation in a post-work society. There’s some questions that are rudimentary but vitally important and I never think to…
I decided to take some suggestions from fans of the site about what topics they’d like to see me talk about. Here’s my stab at the question of whether some folks (e.g. primitivists, anti-civ folks, green anarchists, etc.) may be right about the idea that automation in an anti-work society would lead to more alienation.…
The internet is at times (all of the times?) a capsule from the weird to the absolutely bizarre. And sometimes there comes a time when something happened, was recorded and the people who did it decided to put it on the internet. Such is the case for the CIA and their Timeless Tips for “Simple…
There are many ways in the workplace that we are contorted and twisted to be the “best” worker imaginable. Best, from the bosses standpoint of course. And from that standpoint we shall be on time, no matter if there are snow storms or not, the customer is always right (even if they’re making rude comments)…