July 29, 2003

Why work?
This space has stumbled across a nice-sized lode of amateur philosophizing on why not to work. Lots of stuff along these lines:

We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call "The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates having a job with making a living.
Lots of occasionally broken links to articles like this one, which contain germs of good ideas but cause one to wonder, Will my brain atrophy this badly, too, if I find some way of not having a job?

It turns out that the only problem with most of these schemes is the need for money: mortgages, food, and health care aren't free. It's kind of fun to imagine just how catastrophically society would crumble if they suddenly were, and everyone stopped going to work. I, for example, would write many, many small bits of software that wouldn't help you (nor probably my current employer) in the slightest; or I'd figure out some way of getting my house off the electric grid. Or I'd spend a lot of time raising my kid. Either way would be good.
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Radio silence
Why the radio silence? Stuff to do.
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