What we’ve been trained to identify as “work” under this power hierarchy is more definitively “toil”. The definition has been overridden so that we cannot differentiate the bait and switch.
Work is labor that benefits the person doing it, is self-actualizing, is voluntary, and is an overall positive experience.
Toil is labor without clear benefit. It is not fun. It is repetitive and draining. It is often involuntary or coerced.
For most who labor under capitalism, the labor they perform is not actually work, but toil.
/the ghost of Ammon Hennacy grins
I picked up the idea through Bookchin but I have no doubt he got it from other libsocs like Hennacy.
thank you for that; what a life!
Remember that capitalism is designed to force you to work under threat of death by starvation. You never had freedom to choose what to do with your lives it was chosen for you.
