“ Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship. He was right. Because of work, no matter what we do we keep looking at our watches. The only thing “free” about so-called free time is that it doesn’t cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work.
From the very long winded article: The Abolition of Work. It was a job to read it, but this bit did give me jolt because it’s pretty much dead on. Now what can we do about it? (via guy)
This is why freemarket capitalism works. And when the government overtaxes us, we become slave laborers to them and the top 10% who don’t feel the tax burden. Thus the American Revolution. However, if the fed and the state give us just enough BS, we will fall for it, and not see that the tax burden is what is stripping us of American life.
