The Abolition of Work (A6)
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Publisher: Active Distribution
Author: Bob Black
Publisher: Active Distribution
ISBN: 9781909798847
Format: Pamphlet
Size: 4.1 x 5.8
Page count: 32
No one should ever work.
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
You may be wondering if I’m joking or serious. I’m joking and serious. To be ludic is not to be ludicrous. Play doesn’t have to be frivolous, although frivolity isn’t triviality: very often we ought to take frivolity seriously. I’d like life to be a game—but a game with high stakes. I want to play for keeps.
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