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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Why work ? organization
  • Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 22:21:23 -0800 (PST)

This site sounds like it is full of people who follow Jame's philosophy.
I'gve never seen anything exactly like this as an organization.

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>From their front page:

CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery


Welcome to CLAWS at whywork.org. We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery
group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work? This site
provides information, support, and resources for those looking for
alternatives to traditional employment.

We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call
"The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates having a job with making a
living.

If you start asking yourself "why work?" you may see a connection between
wage slavery, misunderstandings of leisure, lifestyles based on consumption,
corporate welfare, education that often amounts to little more than
conditioning, and the global social, environmental, and economic crises we
are now facing. We hope that the materials we feature here will encourage
critical thinking about such things. This site is primarily about ideas and
encouragement, so our focus is more philosophical than practical. However,
ideas and action go hand-in-hand, so we're currently expanding the
"practicality" sections.

WE'RE FEATURED IN
CONSCIOUS CHOICE MAGAZINE!

Writer Patrick McGaugh calls our
views "extreme." His article asks
"Do you wanna work,
or do you wanna job?"

CLAWS Features

We feature essays, book excerpts and articles by Bob Black, Robert Anton
Wilson, Bertrand Russell, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Liedloff and many other
inspiring thinkers.

Don't miss our list of unconventional replies to the question "So, what do
you do for a living?"

Our spotlight essay of the moment is "We Don't Want Full Employment, We Want
Full Lives!" translated by Ken Knabb from the Bureau of Public Secrets.

Books: CLAWS recommends Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as
Ishmael and Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn as good books to start with
which are aligned with the mission and goals of CLAWS. Want to read more? We
have an extensive list of book recommendations and will be adding more book
reviews soon.

http://www.whywork.org/







  • [Homestead] Why work ? organization, bob ford, 11/10/2008

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