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“Today a cultural challenge is to move from the dogma of "Work therefore I am" to the creative (almost neo-Cartesian) paradigm of "I think, create and solve problems therefore I am useful":”

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“Hey, "working hard" is always a requirement for "working smart". Hard work plus a commitment to thinking outside the box equals smart work. Unrelenting, purposeful hard work with a focus on high return on investment is what makes smart work. If it ain't gonna include a commitment to working your ass off in as many ways as is legally and humanly profitable it ain't smart enough”

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“Those who commend work. - In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. Fundamentally, one now feels at the sight of work - one always means by work that hard industriousness from early till late - that such work is the best policeman, that it keeps everyone in bounds and can mightily hinder the development of reason, covetousness, desire for independence. For it uses up an extraordinary amount of nervous energy, which is thus denied to reflection, brooding, dreaming, worrying, loving, hating; it sets a small goal always in sight and guarantees easy and regular satisfactions. Thus a society in which there is continual hard work will have more security: and security is now worshipped as the supreme divinity. - And now! Horror! Precisely the 'worker' has become dangerous! The place is swarming with 'dangerous individuals'! And behind them the danger of dangers - the individual!”

Anti Work
Book:Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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“A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work in itself is good in itself—for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery. I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think”

Anti Work
Book:Down and Out in Paris and London
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