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Title: What is Work? Author: Reverend Acid Language: en Topics: anti-work
What is Work?
Some anti-work bullshit written by Reverend Acid
What is work?
Work is theft!
Theft of the value you produce. You produce value while your boss makes
none. What does your boss do? They take the value you produced and give
you a pittance in the form of wages. In this sense, wages are a
representation, proof that you have been stolen from.
Work is theft!
Theft of your time. It is coerced labor. You are forced to give up your
time in order to earn wages to afford to survive. Time that you could
use to labor on something that you want to do must be spent laboring for
a boss.
Often capitalists will say work is a voluntary contract and thus can’t
be theft. That couldn’t be further from the truth. For one, work simply
ain’t voluntary. Work is coercive, compulsory. Work is required in order
to afford the ability to survive. The ability to survive in our society
while refusing work (or refusing regular work) is only able to be done
by a minority of people, and they are often subject to state violence or
scorn from those who have bought into the propaganda about work.
Secondly, work is a contract where one party holds all the power. How
can a contract be a free and equal contract when one party holds all the
power?^([1]) You need to survive and your boss needs labor done;
however, the boss has more at their disposal. The boss can simply choose
another person to extort labor from. The boss also has the means to
survive, this allows them to be a boss in the first place. The boss has
the backing of state violence. In short, the boss has all the power
while you have none.
Another common belief capitalists, and many leftists share this as well,
is that work is required for society. The truth is the opposite of that.
We all labor, everyday. Labor is a part of life, and we often do it
without thinking about it. Many people choose to labor on things they
want to do. I am performing labor to write this. Therefore, society
doesn’t need coercive labor in order to exist.
Now, let’s say that society’s existence does require work. I say that
such a society shouldn’t exist. Any society that necessitates theft
should be destroyed. And if all societies require it, then they should
all be abolished.
What is work?
Work is theft!
Works Cited that I Probably Came Dangerously Close to Plagiarizing
“Work: The Theft of Life.” The Network of Domination, by Wolfi
Landstreicher. The Anarchist Library. 2005.
“On Work Abolition: Rejecting the Alien Hermeneutics of the Oppressor”
by Can Standke. Center for a Stateless Society. July 28, 2021.
“The Abolition of Work” by Bob Black. The Anarchist Library. 2009.
[1] Wolfi Landstreicher, 10