. . . the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is … - Bob Black

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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Bob Black

. . . the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

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Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

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