Chapter OneThe Tenets of Anti-Work
Each of the “tenets” offered in the Introduction is discussed more fully here. As an aside to those who skip introductions, these are an unsystematic grouping of themes I have encountered in the anti-work literature.
Tenet 1
Work demands submission and is damaging to the human psyche
This is a central belief of the pure anti-work stance, and is reviewed later in greater detail. This tenet takes no prisoners: regardless of your job, work actively demands submission. It is true whether you are fully aware of it or not, whether you “love your job” or have come to regard it as a major source of irritation and drain, or whether you feel that regardless of the actual state of things ...
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