Why Work? The Zero Work Movement

[genkisan]

haha - you couldn't make this up bro!

is it not just a tad telling that that was top of your list?

the great thing about the change of attitude happening among the under 25s in affluent countries - from Tokyo to Berlin, London to LA etc - this massive disillusionment, is just how appropriate it is to our time:

can I advise you take the younger generations seriously for just a moment, if you can stomach it?

you ask why? I mean they are just kids right? lol - they have way more time to think than you do - and they see what's coming, they see where it's going, they see what they are set to inherit from your generation!

they've been raised in a very different context, so kids these days have a vastly more expansive perspective on life than your typical hard working status-obsessed middle-aged man - purblind, ignorant nose to the grindstone jobsworths

in 50 years time do you think people will be driving those same "dependable" cars you talk of?


and if not - what is so dependable about it? nothing brother, nothing whatever

the next 10 years are going to be a mad scramble to sustain a way of life and a culture that is on the way out no matter what

no wonder the plutocrats are shitting their pants in this mad rush for oil

ha I tell you mate, the stakes are changing fast - your way of life is on the way out, and faster than is likely comfortable for you to realise

and truth be told - I say - bring it on!

This man speaks very wise words....

 

[Guest]

fella, if the figures offend your sensibility find some of your own, or follow the link and find out if I or the institute in question have misrepresented the information

It's not the numbers, it's the wording, and then the notion that this wording equates to "federal tax dollars"

 

[ngakpa]

I think Sharon Jones gets to the point nicely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rneZlRjzIlk

 

[J0sh1]

haha - you couldn't make this up bro!

is it not just a tad telling that that was top of your list?

the great thing about the change of attitude happening among the under 25s in affluent countries - from Tokyo to Berlin, London to LA etc - this massive disillusionment, is just how appropriate it is to our time:

can I advise you take the younger generations seriously for just a moment, if you can stomach it?

you ask why? I mean they are just kids right? lol - they have way more time to think than you do - and they see what's coming, they see where it's going, they see what they are set to inherit from your generation!

they've been raised in a very different context, so kids these days have a vastly more expansive perspective on life than your typical hard working status-obsessed middle-aged man - purblind, ignorant nose to the grindstone jobsworths

in 50 years time do you think people will be driving those same "dependable" cars you talk of?


and if not - what is so dependable about it? nothing brother, nothing whatever

the next 10 years are going to be a mad scramble to sustain a way of life and a culture that is on the way out no matter what

no wonder the plutocrats are shitting their pants in this mad rush for oil

ha I tell you mate, the stakes are changing fast - your way of life is on the way out, and faster than is likely comfortable for you to realise

and truth be told - I say - bring it on!

Words of wisdom, see this kind of thinking is what gives me hope that there are people out there that can see past the pollution society force-feeds upon people.

Keep it up brother, we need more of this thinking.

 

[LeoNardoDaVinci]

Dirty south you make me sick, ngakpa you make my soul sing.

 

[The Uncola]

This is how hard work is rewarded in the land of Bush:

"Circuit City fired 3,400 employees in stores across the country yesterday, saying they were making too much money and would be replaced by new hires willing to work for less.

The company said the dismissals had nothing to do with performance but were part of a larger effort to improve the bottom line. The firings represent about 9 percent of the company's in-store workforce of 40,000."

90% of political contributions given by CC were to their hero GWB.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802185.html

Presnidentin is Hard Work!

 

[genkisan]

This is how hard work is rewarded in the land of Bush:

"Circuit City fired 3,400 employees in stores across the country yesterday, saying they were making too much money and would be replaced by new hires willing to work for less.

The company said the dismissals had nothing to do with performance but were part of a larger effort to improve the bottom line. The firings represent about 9 percent of the company's in-store workforce of 40,000."

90% of political contributions given by CC were to their hero GWB.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802185.html

Presnidentin is Hard Work!

Pigfucking Corpo-Nazi scumwhackers.

Fill their rectums with expanding spray-foam and PCP and then force-feed them bean dip, oranges and greasy pork.

Evil fucking resource-hoarding human hemorrhoids dressed in over-priced suits sacrificing the complacent employee/taxpayers they created on the altar of next quarters profit for the sake of their bloated egos.


FEH!

 

[ngakpa]

Pigfucking Corpo-Nazi scumwhackers.

Fill their rectums with expanding spray-foam and PCP and then force-feed them bean dip, oranges and greasy pork.

Evil fucking resource-hoarding human hemorrhoids dressed in over-priced suits sacrificing the complacent employee/taxpayers they created on the altar of next quarters profit for the sake of their bloated egos.


FEH!

well said that man


you might enjoy this:

http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html
T.A.Z.
The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

(not condoning all of the content btw)

oh yeh and cheers LdeV and J0sh1

 

[dbuzz]

 

[greenhead]

I believe that I bumped into a couple of members of the Zero Work Movement today, when I was taking a stroll by my place. They were holding plastic cups, sitting on the ground and they were sort of smelly. Around these parts, we call them bums.

 

[dbuzz]

haha. i'm a firm believer in doing what makes you happy. if it's zero work, then by means, be a bum. but pleez stay in school, and make these choices when you're done.

 

[The_Leader]

whoever thinks growing pot aint work dont grow much pot. w/that said, I work my ass off w/my prepetual grow. Im also a cool boss.

by all means be a bump. just dont ask me for shit.

 

[Guest]

i'd love to not work or at least work doing something i enjoy but those things are either low paid or illegal so i have no other choice at the momenyt since i need money to buy things to make me feel happy such as travelling or having the internet.

 

[RudolfTheRed]

...................words of wisdom

alot of the people i see are like robots going to work, doing something that is personally meaningless to them, going home-watching TV-they seem like they are in a daze -if you present them with an alternative it can be threatening

my father spent his entire life working long hours in a job that he didn't particularly like and got very dissillusioned when, aged about 60, he realised he'd been wasting his time for 45 years. I vowed at 16 that i'd learn from his mistakes...........i hope my children learn from mine

eddie
SuperKristal Morrocan

Man, I couldn't say it any better myself... everyone should listen to these words of wisdom.

 

[Crazy Composer]

"If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves." — Mark Twain

 

[RudolfTheRed]

Hey now, I never said that I wanted to spend my life working, or that I thought it was what had to be done, my objection is to the idea that you don't have to do any work at all.

Even living self-sufficient requires work.

Right, but the work it takes to live completely self sufficiently is a lot different than the work you do at a 9-5. Hell, to an extent I wouldn't even call the work that goes into self sufficient living as work. I would call it play. If I am striving for something greater, that is mine, and I am living completely off the grid thats not work. Thats me doing what makes me happy.

Work to me is a 9-5 cubical job with a shitty ass boss down your back all day long. Self sufficent living hardly consitutes as work. In fact, early tribes never called it work either. They also called play.

 

[Harry Gypsna]

u know ive red this and i really dont think any of the ppl who said that this thread is about living on welfare/benfits obviously didnt atually rea the article..
its not saying work is bad....its saying we do too much for the wrong reasons basically

 

[Harry Gypsna]

"If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves." — Mark Twain

thanks for that CC i might just have that tsattoed on my arse

 

[tenfeetofganja]

All the infrastructure and usefull things we could have done with the money wasted on wars and pork barrel projects leads me to believe that a few imaginary welfare credits is fully justified for anyone who needs the help such as students, disabled, elderly etc..etc.

No shit. I had to quit school because working two jobs and trying to get a degree with the extra time wasnt cutting it. Then I look at all these fucking mongrats sucking off the tit of the system because they have six kids and no desire to work or better themselfs. Well FUCK. I thought education was our countries biggest priority, yet were forcing our "future of america" into working shit jobs with terrible pay so ol' george bush and his crew of henchman can continue raping the american taxpayers. HRMM... 89million a year on education. 600million a year on the war with IRAQ..What do we really CARE about. too bad half our country is full of mindless sheep who would rather the goverment make every decision in their life then rely on their own form of thought process and realize how fucker our country truly is.

I was too "rich" to get any goverment grants, yet to poor to afford books, rent, food, class, and the rest of the bills (gas,elect,water,etc.) not to mention the insane price of gas. And wait no RELIABLE public transport..

Man for being "the greatest country in the world" we sure look like shit compared to canada or even countries like the netherlands...and how much is our dollar worth...? Might as well call it a fucking PASEO.

 

[wisco61]

sell weed to pay for books!