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The Revolution of Everyday Life: The Decline and Fall of Work

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The necessity of production is so easily proved that any hack philosopher of industrialism can fill ten books with it. Unfortunately for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the counterpart of the right to be a slave, claimed at the dawn of time by prisoners about to be massacred. Above all it was a question of surviving, of not disappearing physically. The imperatives of production are the imperatives of survival; from now on, people want to live, not just to survive.



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A jobless future awaits, no matter what the government does

A jobless future awaits, no matter what the government does | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I'd had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future.

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What Was the Job?

What Was the Job? | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This was the year the job broke, the year we accepted a re-interpretation of its fundamental bargain and bought in to the push to get us to all work for ourselves rather than each other.
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