“For many of us, feminism denotes the task of abolishing all organized scarcities, from the private nuclear household to the nation. It’s the deprivatization of love, via the insurgency of mothers of every gender against the patriarchal institution of motherhood, the decoupling of survival from the wage, the destruction of markets, the ecological insistence on interspecies responsibility, the decarbonization of every mégapole, and the communization of continent-wide architecture: waterways, seed banks, and libraries. It’s a local proletarian strike against work (that always already gendered and stolen substance otherwise called alienated labor) and a planetary revolution in values that prioritizes care over accumulation. It’s a perfectly good name, too, for the horizon wherein work’s myriad precarious, abject, wageless, mad, incarcerated, and otherwise remaindered victims are avenged. As a revolutionary movement, feminism abolishes gender qua differential, while remaking genders qua lush, interesting, and pleasurable difference.”
Source: Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
“The dignity of work lies not in profit, but in its service to life.”
“We must do our best works while we have life.”
“Work done right enables you to focus on something bigger than yourself.”
“You spend a whole day thinking about what you're writing, that's writing.”
“What is the work writers do? Not the writing, not the thing that lives on--the work, the inward conversation that must be had again and again before even a modicum of meaning arrives on the page.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Interviewing one of Uber’s earliest executives, who demonstrated the company’s route-finding algorithms with the unbridled enthusiasm of a small child at Christmas, I couldn’t help but think what this company had really innovated was not some brilliant new solution to the traveling salesman problem, but the establishment of a new, lower norm of employee treatment. Success, growth, profit came from taking what might at one time have been decent, stable jobs and rebranding them as side hustles. The brilliant business idea was persuading people to expect less.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who
are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
Changing the way they see the world, sure, but also changing the world. By
challenging the status quo, a cadre of heretics is discovering that one person,
just one, can make a huge difference.”
“If you are an employee, you will always be stuck trading your time for money.”
Source: How To Not Be Broke: Stop Working Just to Pay Bills
“You finally complete your first paper, but even its appearance in a “highly respected” and thick biweekly journal sandwiched between two other equally dull and opaque articles fails to alleviate your growing boredom and disillusionment with a career in physics, a career that once seemed to promise excitement, glamor and importance. Are you going to spend your whole life in a mad, cutthroat ego trip just to see your name in print every six months? Or is the real pleasure in seeing your name referenced in someone else’s useless article?”
Source: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives