(Nick’s Notes: If you’re looking for the previous part click here, the first and second parts are here and here) A lot of my criticisms come from an anarchist perspective which Santens doesn’t really address in his FAQ to begin with. That’s understandable given most of the folks he talks to about the universal basic…
This update will be slightly shorter than usual partially because June had far less content than I usually go for due to a mix of looking for a job, Porcfest, having strep throat and other writings taking up my time. I hope to make up for that in July but with a job and some…
The idea that work inhibits our sleep is something I’ve touched on before but it’s good to see one of the experts involved in sleep discuss this as well. Dr. Paul Kelly has spoken up specifically about the harms that waking up at 9 AM has done to our bodies and our overall health: This…
Greetings dear viewers, friends, fellow workers and assorted slackers all! For the month of January 2016: I posted 11 times 9 of which were original articles Wrote over 10,000 words (not including lazy posts) Promoted to my usual subReddits but also got some great traffic from r/Philosophy recently (thanks!) Nearly 4000 views in total (the…
I’ve discussed Peter Gray before when I reviewed extrinsic and internal goals. As I said there, some of the research that Gray was using seemed shaky at best. Particularly in merely noting the correlation of various negative things that have happened to children in the last few decades with a lack of play. For example,…
We’ve discussed feminism a few times now (see here and here) and in keeping with that theme let’s talk about a particular troublesome branch of feminism. The liberal (or mainstream) forms of feminism. To take a popular version of a liberal feminist argument involving work: we should lean in to work instead of kicking back.…
Here on Abolish Work I try to focus on as many intersecting issues with work as possible. One of those issues has been play, another has been time poverty and still another has been excessive work hours in the US. Another obvious offshoot of all of these intersections is the way that work affects women.…
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…
Just to refresh your memory (or if you’re just getting into the conversation now), last time we talked about work and “time poverty”. We concluded by looking at some possible solutions to this dilemma of workers not having enough time. I posited that it was fairly obvious that giving workers more hours doesn’t actually help…
(Nick’s Notes: This is the second of two unpublished Hardly Working posts that I had for C4SS. It was originally written in late May) For a while now I have been trying to wrack my head and figure out how to tell a story about the anti-work position to better exemplify its means and ends. It…