Laziness Works. And The Simple

Deleting 200 Spams A Day Is A Drag. And I Was Checking My Email Constantly, Rather Than Getting On With My Real Work, Which Is Reading And Writing. Email Was Becoming A Distraction, A Burden Rather Than A Liberation.

Education Itself Is A Putting Off, A Postponement; We Are Told To Work Hard To Get Good Results. Why? So We Can Get A Good Job. What Is A Good Job? One That Pays Well. Oh. And That's It? All This Suffering, Merely So That We Can Earn A Lot Of Money, Which, Even If We Manage It, Will Not Solve Our Problems Anyway? It's A Tragically Limited Idea Of What Life Is All About.

I Don't Put Much Faith In The Political System Because It's A Question Of How Are You Going To Run Capitalism, Not How Are We Going To Develop A Different System To Capitalism.

Bosses Should Sanction The Nap Rather Than Expect Workers To Power On All Day Without Repose. They Might Even Find That Workers' Happiness - Or What Management Types Refer To As "employee Satisfaction Results" - Might Improve.

A Conclusion I’ve Come To At The Idler Is That It Starts With Retreating From Work But It’s Really About Making Work Into Something That Isn’t Drudgery And Slavery, And Then Work And Life Can Become One Thing.