Personal Update(s) / Introduction I don’t know when I’ll have spare time in my tour for sure and especially not this much of it. Right now I’m in an ice cream cafe (yeah, I know) and I’ve got an hour or so to spare. I figure while we’re still in the early part(s) of October,…
Personal Update(s) / Introduction Let me be clear that August was a desperately tough month for me as I went through various personal and deeply emotional tribulations. The fact that I was still able to post 11 times in a month seems to me like a goddamn miracle considering everything I went through with my…
I was tipped off to this interview by the podcast Srsly Wrong with Thaddeus Russel a while back but didn’t manage to listen to it until today: Around the 12:00 minute mark I’m mentioned as someone who is trying to reconcile “anti work” and “pro market” ideas. One of the hosts seems pretty skeptical and…
(Nick’s Notes: Thaddeus has approvingly linked to this version of the essay as well) On Monday, millions of Americans will celebrate Labor Day in a time-honored way – by deliberately avoiding labor. They’ll attend barbecues and beach parties; they might even kick back in their hammocks and lawn chairs with a feeling of entitlement, secure…
This article can be found here on C4SS and (of course) here on this site. The common libertarian nowadays is of the same non-interventionist temperament as the Taoists. They endorse individual preference, spontaneity and self-interest. They loathe the State and central planners of all kinds. Most libertarians identify, also, as individualists — both methodologically and ethically. However, much…
(Nick’s Notes: As always Ryan has allowed me to republish an article of his. While this one is only tangentially related to anti-work I have noticed that plenty of anti-work folks advocate things like UBI and I think Ryan gives us good reasons to be skeptical of that approach) On both sides of the argument over the…
Going back to my earlier ideas of identity and jobs there is another manifestation associated with it that I did not think about that appears in the above picture. The logic of that picture makes sense when you also revisit my post on shaming and jobs and that shame comes from the fact that we have merged our…
Hey everyone, sorry for this late post. Had a bit of “work” to do today (but it was fun and joyful so I am grateful for it) but I was thinking to myself about the whole, “what do you do” question that a lot of people ask (and more people have thought about and attempted…
Work -What is it good for? Presented at AltExpo #13 “Lucky” 6/22/13 Introduction Imagine spending most of your life in one place, context or situation. This situation is typically tedious, repetitive, and requires little skill. Economically speaking, it wouldn’t be too far to say that you’ve been forced into this situation. In this situation you…
[Note from Nick: This article has also been published here] The tenets of the Tao Te Ching express the first anarchist or at least proto-anarchist political philosophy, to my knowledge. The Taoist opposition to government springs from a radical non-interventionist philosophy on all three major branches of philosophy. While Taoism rejects the normative, they recognize…