The End of Work № 2

Eff Work: A Manifesto as relevant in 2022 as it was when I first wrote it in 2017

Here’s my new mantra:

Eff Work!

Now please, hear me out.

Inspiration for this new mantra comes from an episode of Tapestry, one of CBC radio’s most vibrant threads, in which a professor of history at Rutgers talked a little bit about his new book “No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea.” Per the author, “The working title of the book was F**k Work, and I sold it and sold it and sold it and my editor tried to sell the book in-house and he couldn’t because Amazon wouldn’t feature the book title if it had the Eff word in it!”

And yet, as far as I’m concerned, that just might be the right kind of message for my life right now.

Over the course of the episode, the host Mary Hynes asks Livingston about the prevailing perspective on work; work itself is a moral good, something men and women were made and designed to do, and in which there can be attained some moral standing.

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