This story is a few months old but I’ve been meaning to share it ever since my friend William Gillis posted it on my Facebook wall so thanks William! Carlo Cani, an Italian miner “…confesse[d] he dr[ew] a pension despite inventing an imaginative range of excuses for not venturing down a mine in Sardinia over…
Here at Abolish Work we not only want to non-vigorously oppose work (vigor is too much effort for us) we also want to non-vigorously talk about alternatives from time to time. We’ve highlighted play via the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky here and here as well as some research from a Boston Globe article and finally a friend of mine, William…
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…
Where to Start? In my previous post I tackled what I meant by “work” in the Introduction. While that hopefully answers a good portion of what an anti-work position may look like (I don’t claim a monopoly on the anti-work position) it isn’t all there is to it. Because for me if you’re going to oppose work…