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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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"immigrants take jobs Americans won't do" is a euphemism for "immigrants are used as slave labor". there's a reason Louisiana wants to replace immigrant farm workers with literal chain gangs (www.tumblr.com)

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kill the rhetoric that americans are so lazy that they won't take farm jobs. americans take labor intensive jobs all the time. the reason no americans will take farm jobs is because agricultural work is exempt from the vast majority of labor laws and labor protections, including the use of child labor. so only immigrants - people who have little to no protection from the law or other options for work - take most of these jobs. we have created a permanent underclass of labor and then say that americans are just lazy for not volunteering to be part of the underclass.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The statement is factual in some instances, we saw that with Brexit. After kicking out all the Poles, noone in the UK wanted to do the harvesting. Undoubtedly often because it didn't pay enough, but even farmers that were offering good pay rates were struggling. Turns out, most people don't want to do a seasonal job that would require them to either drive a whole lot to get to all the fields, or stay in temporary accomodations close to the fields for a prolonged time. People from areas with a lower median income were much more incentivized to do those kinds of work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

that is some perceptive insight. I probably think about brexit a lot more than most US citizens - mostly along the lines of 'what's it gonna take to reverse this shit show' - but your confirmation of an equivalent over there struck me. Thanks for the insight.