While reading through Would a Work-Free World be so Bad by Ilana E. Strauss I was struck by this passage: American towns and cities aren’t really built for lots of free time: Public spaces tend to be small islands in seas of private property, and there aren’t many places without entry fees where adults can…
A lot of anti-work folks like using various statistics about hunter gatherer societies or medieval societies that relied on a lot less “work” to function. But considering work itself and what it means is an important starting point because based on my experience with work-related studies, many studies use different (mutually-exclusive) definitions. For instance, I’ve…
There’s an essay by an anarchist named Charles Johnson entitled Libertarianism Though Thick and Thin which discusses different complimentary features of the ideology. Should libertarians care about anti-racist struggles? Or is property rights and non-aggression the only things that matter? This is a great discussion and I encourage everyone who thinks that libertarians can’t be…
The Atlantic recently put out an article that had been making the rounds called Why Americans Work So Much. This article gets to the point faster than the last article I looked at that tackled similar themes. The article concludes that income inequality accounts for why we in the US have had increased production but…
So keep in mind it’s mostly just me writing these articles. I can’t really stay up to date on current events and by the time I can they’re usually long gone. With that explained it may make a bit more sense why I’m only now making some comments on the Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn…
I wanted to republish this but have not gotten any response from the author on Twitter and figured I would just excerpt the best parts and just do that instead. One of the earliest and most interesting parts about this is the history of the cubicle. Some of which you can find here: The original designs…