Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Down with the, um, eight-hour work week, yeah...

"The Work Less Party was founded because modern Western culture's work ethic — the idea that the worth of a human being depends on the work that he or she does — no longer serves our society well. With vast increases in productivity over the past centuries, we no longer need everyone's efforts directed towards survival. And yet we do not question the work ethic that drives many of us to work long hours at jobs that we don't like, that provide little satisfaction, that harm our health, that take our precious time in exchange for mere consumer goods, that drive the economic engines of over consumption, and that ultimately leave the planet barren."