Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 912-914

 

One way of pushing the human personality too far is by depriving it of its minimum requirement for variety of stimuli. The resulting loss of well-being takes a form called boredom. The continuum sense, by producing this unpleasant feeling, motivates the person to change what he is doing. We in civilization do not customarily feel we have a 'right' not to be bored, and so we spend years doing monotonous work in factories and offices or alone all day doing uninteresting chores.
Jean Liedloff
The Continuum Concept
(emphasis JS)

For instance, someone diagnosed with ADHD will likely have trouble performing routine work tasks without a prescription for heavy stimulants that pose a real health danger to that person. Slowly but surely, our culture is beginning to question and reject the idea that there’s anything wrong with someone who can’t stay “on task” for the amount of time regularly demanded by such a job. On the contrary, there’s something wrong with the work paradigm itself.
Future of Work: Finding Value in the Rejects of the Job Economy
By: Nick Meador
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Published: October 10, 2012

(emphasis JS)

 

 

 

I have wondered for some time if the value of work has not become distorted in areas where we are engaged in what the world at large views as more “meaningful” work. I have worked in both arts administration and politics/social justice positions and have had my sense of self-worth and identity very challenged by things as whimsical as the moods of artistic directors and the various political infighting in non-profit boards. When we rely on the affirmation of the workplace to tell us whether we are valuable human beings we really do enslave ourselves.

Comment submitted by Linda Rogers on October 10, 2012
Future of Work: Finding Value in the Rejects of the Job Economy
By: Nick Meador

(emphasis JS)