On Jan 10, 2012, at 2:30 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> One side effect of high unemployment is to shift the discussion about work to a discussion about the virtue of having a job and the moral failure of those who don't manage to get one or, god forbid, don't even want one any more.
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> Fact is, nobody wants a job. What people really want is to have meaningful work that sustains their society and allows them to grow and mature as human beings. Instead, we get this endless churn about jobs and wind up in the false position of saying that we all want to struggle for exactly those conditions (wage labor) that reproduce the system that is killing us.
You mean that if you find labor statistics useful and enlightening, you can't at the same time have a critique of the capitalist meat grinder? I thought there was some virtue in taking the measure of, as Kim Gordon put it in a different context, the exact dimensions of hell.