Well, you can't tell people that they have a duty to generate surplus value to be appropriated by the ruling class. So you have to drum up some Puritan crap.
But as to the primacy of work for human beings, I wouldn't disagree with that. It is not so much that work justifies our right to exist as that it is actually, in its non-alienated form, a meaningful and even pleasurable from of existence. The woman (obstetrician) who delivered me and helped me survive, emigrated from Romania to Germany in her early sixties because she did not want to be forced to retire. She had to learn German, she had to take her medical boards all over again, and learn a new pharmacology. She did all that and continued to work into her mid eighties. She said to me: "I come home tired, but it's a good tired." I sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for reasons other than shame or fear. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=382617351803729&set=a.382617281803736.92654.151145971617536&type=1&theater "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living. - Buckminister Fuller _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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