YOU are a part-time slave..

No one should ever work.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the 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.

That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a creative and fun revolution.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. I'm not saying we need more time for sheer sloth and slack because we have had more of that than we ever have had before.

The alternative to work isn't just idleness. And no I'm not promoting leisure. Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work, and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work many people return from vacations so beat that they look forward to returning to work so they can rest up. The main difference between work and leisure is that at work at least you get paid for your alienation and enervation.

My minimum definition of work is forced labor, that is, compulsory production. Both elements are essential. Work is production enforced by economic or political means, by the carrot or the stick.

Work is never done for its own sake; it's done on account of some product or output that somebody else gets out of it. This is what work necessarily is. To define it is to despise it.

This is the real world of work: a world of bureaucratic blundering, of sexual harassment and discrimination, of bonehead bosses exploiting and scapegoating their subordinates who—by any rational-technical criteria - should be calling the shots.

Work makes a mockery of freedom. You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or a monastery.

A worker is a part-time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us.

Work turns people into stultified submissives. Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfil the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship. He was right. Because of work, no matter what we do we keep looking at our watches. The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work.

Hunters and gatherers work less than we do; leisure is abundant, and there is a greater amount of sleep in the daytime.

The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding . . . He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Governments deal out occupations as a measure to assure public order.

Under a system of permanent festivities, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them. Haha brilliant

Things should be done that need to be done not just for ourselves but for each other in order to create an equal community an equal world. Self sustainability is a key role that we should undertake. Growing our own food not hopping in our cars and driving to Woolies to pick up some produce.

If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life.

No one should ever work.

Workers of the world. . . relax!

Now I just have to work out how to pull this off, I'll keep you posted..