>If I write a story for the fun of it, that's not usually considered work. But if I get paid to go to some building and write the same story, then that's work. Why should the later be considered more valuable then the former?
I think it is both work and pleasure in either case. But it is only SOCIALLY productive work rather than a hobby if a significant people other than yourself like it well enough to forgo consumption of something else enough to subsidize your doing it.
> When I worked in a factory it wasn't the alienatin -- it was the pure continuous physical misery. I think if (a) factories were built first for comfort, secondly for productivity and (b) no one worked in one for more than 15 hours a week, 35 weeks a year, and 4 or 5 years in a lifetime they might become tolerable.
For example in a Parecon...