2026-07-07 07:45 UTC
»Useful Work versus Useless Toil« by William Morris
»This: one [kind of work] has hope in it, the other has not... hope of rest, hope of product, hope of pleasure in the work itself«
https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1884/useful.htm
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@simulo@hci.social 2026-07-22 12:39
"...it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself - a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others." (See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism )