I write anti-job pieces because so many of us are socially conditioned to believe that jobs are just a natural and expected part of life. I like to nudge people to take a more conscious look at the alternatives. We're taught to believe we must have jobs, but the truth is that they're usually more trouble than they're worth.
In the scope of human history, jobs are a fairly recent invention, a modernization of slavery and indentured servitude.
Between the jobbed and the jobless folks I know, the jobless ones are almost invariably happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser. People who have jobs for a long time tend to be really messed up -- it's like every ounce of courage has been drained out of them, and many suffer from panaphobia (fear of everything).
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