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Refuse!

Refuse to work. The boss is not your friend. Society does not protect you, or anyone. Everything in the economy is a means to one of two ends: the slave and the NEET. There are two tendencies, the tendency to embrace slavery and the tendency to reject it. The slave who suffers against his slavery is brother to the NEET who sees his suffering and wishes it to end. The worker in love with work is the pet toady of the investors.

Consuming little, the NEET sees the limits of work. Producing for-himself and for-others on the basis of love has been properly called by many "play". Production for-himself and for-others on the bases of fear and greed really is "work". Consuming on the basis of love mends broken hearts. But how many consume to maintain slavery? the car, the dry cleaning, the taxes, new haircut: weekend classes for more marketable "skills" (hire me, I'll give you more profits and take less in return)

So much slavery and fearful consumption is done toward the end of better sex. A bigger house - for sex in more places, with a better backdrop. Nicer lingerie. Restaurants associate themselves with romance, preying on the natural intimacy that mutual acknowledgement of mortality entails. More vacation time and more airline miles - for better sex ...