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The Abolition of Work
Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
They want your time , enough of it to make you theirs, even if they have no use for most of it. Otherwise why hasn’t the average work week gone down by more than a few minutes in the last sixty years?
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
To be ludic is not to be ludicrous.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Creation could become recreation.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.