AFFIRMATIVE - CRITIQUE - CRITIQUE OF WORK 336

ANSWER: ANTI-WORK POSITION IS IMPRACTICAL

IF WE REJECT WORK, WE MUST REJECT ALL OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY WE HAVE CONSTRUCTED -- NOT VERY PRACTICAL

Neala Schleuning, 1995; The Abolition of Work and Other Myths; This article originally appeared in issue #35 (Summer, 1995) of Kick It Over // acs

Moreover, if we remain committed to our modern, centralized, urban/industrial societies, at minimum a vast infrastructure must be maintained and work must remain highly coordinated and specialized. Streets and sidewalks must be repaired, garbage must be removed, water must be brought to people, and waste must be carried away and processed in environmentally safe ways. The motors that lift the elevators have to work, the heat, water, electricity and telephone must be maintained. "Someone" must do all this work - co-operatively, individually, by lot, by coercion - the work must be done.

CANNOT GO BACK TO NATURE AND HOPE TO LIVE WITHOUT WORK, ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN CLIMATES

Neala Schleuning, 1995; The Abolition of Work and Other Myths; This article originally appeared in issue #35 (Summer, 1995) of Kick It Over // acs

Going back to nature to live at survival levels might work, but only in a southern climate, with a controlled population in an ecologically balanced regional biosphere and an environment producing enough food for foraging. Those of us living in northern climates have to do a lot of work to survive.