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Signs on May Day represent a missed
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Photo Credit: Sarah Seltzer
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The kind of attitude that is outlined in this article is what I would consider a sign-post on the landscape of a changing paradigm. The ideas posed here challenge, among other concepts, our preoccupation with the American work ethic, and why it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Reconsidering the collective value of "work above all else" , the author offers alternative objectives as part of the American Dream. -S.C.-
How Less Work for Everybody
Could Solve a Lot of Our Economic
Turbulence and Make Life More Pleasant
by Sarah Seltzer for alternet.org
July 20, 2012
"Job Creation" isn't the only answer.
"Get a job!" This jeer was
perhaps the most frequent directed at Occupy protesters last year, and it was
usually either met by "I can't! That's why I'm here" or "I'm
already working two." Embedded in this ever-common taunt of protesters or
other counterculture figures is the belief that if you just work hard enough in
America, you will succeed, that any time spent with nose away from grindstone
is time wasted. Of course, the truth that Occupy, We Are the 99% Tumblr and the
recession opened many (but not enough) eyes to is that it's not enough to work
hard, get a degree, sacrifice and slave anymore because the system in fact is
broken.
