I make sacrifices for this site and I just want to be up front about that. For instance, sometimes I watch a bunch of boring British people talk about the state of work in the most droll sense for over an hour. But really, my attention span only lasted the first 45 minutes and that…
There’s an interesting paradox that I’ve written about before: The poor are working less than the rich. This has been written about elsewhere and explained in three theories: 1. The availability of attractive work for poor men (especially black men) is falling, as the availability of cheap entertainment is rising. 2. Social forces cultivate a…
Right now I’m listening to a band called System of a Down. They’re a very loud, chaotic and overall disorienting band, especially if you’ve never heard them or anything like them before. A friend of mine described them as something akin to “avant nu metal” but generally it’s difficult to label SOAD as any one genre. While doing…
Health concerns aren’t a new topic on this site and certainly stress isn’t either. But this time around we have even more data to support the obvious: Stress kills in the long-run and stressful jobs are a locus of stress, therefore working too hard and too much can damage our health and in the long-run,…
Americana Meets Studies on Stress My new job is indeed very “fast paced”. There’s hardly room for a break and when I’m by myself (or might as well be) there’s almost no way to even feed myself. I’m not exactly clear on how the store I work at is legally getting away with this since…
Written by Willaim Gillis There’s a lot of talk in anarchist circles about abolishing work. Some of it in line with the dream of a high-technology path to post-scarcity. But a lot of it takes an alternative route and settles for simply building a ludic society — that is to say a culture that adapts…