"Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be……" — Bob Black
"Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced."
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18 Quotes by Bob Black
Bob Black has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
- [Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most…
- ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without…
- Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian…
- Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes,…
- To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy…
- You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and…
- The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
- A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
- Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes…
- People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to…
- Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.