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In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The ...more

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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecologica...more

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Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the u...more

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Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions ...more

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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts​ f...more

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In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were v...more

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Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from th...more

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All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free ti...more

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Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resou...more