Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
- Workers of the world... relax!
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- Finally, we must do away with far and away the largest occupation, the one with the longest hours, the lowest pay and some of the most tedious tasks around. I refer to housewives doing housework and child-rearing. By abolishing wage-labor and achieving full unemployment we undermine the sexual division of labor. The nuclear family as we know it is ... See more
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Damn…
- 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?
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- Forty percent of the workforce are white-collar workers, most of whom have some of the most tedious and idiotic jobs ever concocted.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- On the other hand—and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure—we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
- Doubtless we all need a lot more time for sheer sloth and slack than we ever enjoy now, regardless of income or occupation, but once recovered from employment-induced exhaustion nearly all of us want to act.
from The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Sloth isn’t the default state; it’s the state that is a result of energy sucking activities.
- The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.
from The Build In Public Manifesto by Leo Guinan
speed wins