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    Work is the Great Lie. Quit your job!

    I suspected this for years:

    THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black

    Anxiety Culture: Work Hell

    If you're working more than four hours a day, and if you're handing over your wages to some bank for some overpriced mortgage/worthless pension fund/loan, you are utterly insane. Honestly. You should be in an asylum. You'd live longer and be happier!
    "Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free." George Berkeley

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    Quote Originally Posted by bokuden View Post
    I suspected this for years:

    THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black

    Anxiety Culture: Work Hell

    If you're working more than four hours a day, and if you're handing over your wages to some bank for some overpriced mortgage/worthless pension fund/loan, you are utterly insane. Honestly. You should be in an asylum. You'd live longer and be happier!
    If I quit my job I wouldn't have as much time to spend on P.ie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bokuden View Post
    I suspected this for years:

    THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black

    Anxiety Culture: Work Hell

    If you're working more than four hours a day, and if you're handing over your wages to some bank for some overpriced mortgage/worthless pension fund/loan, you are utterly insane. Honestly. You should be in an asylum. You'd live longer and be happier!
    Difficult to have any sense of self worth if you dont produce anything in my opinion.
    "Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow." - Allen Ginsberg Memory Gardens

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    Quote Originally Posted by bokuden View Post
    I suspected this for years:

    THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black

    Anxiety Culture: Work Hell

    If you're working more than four hours a day, and if you're handing over your wages to some bank for some overpriced mortgage/worthless pension fund/loan, you are utterly insane. Honestly. You should be in an asylum. You'd live longer and be happier!
    sorry

    that's just a pile of sh!t

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShoutingIsLeadership View Post
    If I quit my job I wouldn't have as much time to spend on P.ie.
    You're having a great job in your job, so.
    "Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free." George Berkeley

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    He's just a lazy bugger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bokuden View Post
    You're having a great job in your job, so.
    Just bringing a bit of levity to the place

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    Quote Originally Posted by sauntersplash View Post
    Difficult to have any sense of self worth if you dont produce anything in my opinion.
    Why does anyone need a sense of self worth. Worth to whom?
    "Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free." George Berkeley

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    Quote Originally Posted by bokuden View Post
    I suspected this for years:

    THE ABOLITION OF WORK by Bob Black

    Anxiety Culture: Work Hell

    If you're working more than four hours a day, and if you're handing over your wages to some bank for some overpriced mortgage/worthless pension fund/loan, you are utterly insane. Honestly. You should be in an asylum. You'd live longer and be happier!
    Sounds like a really bad version of Oscar Wilde. Dear me that is really badly written nonsense and I see big problems when it comes to addressing Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. The sad thing is that anyone thinks he makes any sense.
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    I have quit my job, become self-employed and I've no rent or mortgage to pay.

    I didn't do it to improve my sense of self worth, I did it because I was bored at my last job.

    I don't see why your sense of esteem, self worth, whatever, should be tied up with your job, although obviously it is for many, many people.
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