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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and 'developed my career' and now im 'successful' but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask 'who fixes toilets under communism?' my answer is a resounding 'me. I will fix the toilets.'

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a clean floor and peeled potatoes ready to be cooked versus more TPS reports, higher KPIs, more semicolons …

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a no brainer. This stupid fucking late stage capitalism money problem Thing...

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

not just money, but controlling our time – no time left to do anything for ourselves or too burnt out to do anything during those precious spare minutes …

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you know the song Working Class The Hero?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

time to roll out the Green Day cover to save Darfur again …

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You're good people, I like you. That's the version I play guitar to after work on Fridays. Impossible to listen to Lennon afterward, has to be first lol (Also glad to know someone else also picks the Darfur interjection version over the audio track)