“Sigmund Freud insisted that love and work were the essential ingredients of healthy human being. Of course he was right. But can love survive the end of work as the willing partner of the good life? Can we let people get something for nothing and still treat them as our brothers and sisters – as mem…”— James Livingston, aeon.coTagged: Job Satisfaction, Unemployment, Social Class, Work
“In short, it lets us say: enough already. Fuck work.”— James Livingston, aeon.coTagged: Job Satisfaction, Work, Lazy
“As if having a job is self-evidently a good thing, no matter how dangerous, demanding or demeaning it is... Shitty jobs for everyone won’t solve any social problems we now face.”— James Livingston, aeon.coTagged: Employment, Labor, Job Satisfaction, Social Currency, Work
“There’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills – unless of course you’ve landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.”— James Livingston, aeon.coTagged: Wall Street, Capitalism, Labor, Work, Job Satisfaction