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"If this isn’t obvious, the main reason is we’re constantly encouraged to look at social problems as if they were questions of personal morality. All this work, all the carbon we’re pouring into the atmosphere, must somehow be the result of our consumerism; therefore to stop eating meat or dream of flying off to beach vacations.

But this is just wrong. It’s not our pleasures that are destroying the world. It’s our puritanism, our feeling that we have to suffer in order to deserve those pleasures.

If we want to save the world, we’re going to have to stop working."

— David Graeber

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"We have become a civilization based on work—not even "productive work" but work as an end and meaning in itself.

We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities.

It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement."

— David Graeber