L.I.F.E.

Livable Income For Everybody
http://www.livableincome.org/
To try to change things without an GLI is like having a meeting where people are trying to solve a difficult problem and only a few of the people at the table have had sufficient food and sleep. The rest are hungry, tired and worried about their children. This would hardly be the best way to solve any problem.
--Cindy L'Hirondelle

(Extremely) Gross Domestic Product
vs
Genuine Progress Indicator
http://www.flora.org/sustain/Question/GPI.html

Whywork.org
http://www.whywork.org/
We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?

Anxiety Culture
http://www.anxietyculture.com
"Subversion with a smile."

Leisure resources On The Internet
http://gonsalves.org/leisure2.htm

Workplace problems
http://www.mhhe.com/business/management/updates/mcshane/ch05hot.htm
corporate America’s insatiable appetite for more hours from fewer people.

Death By Work
http://www.mondediplo.com/2003/06/01ramonet
The report reveals more than 2 million workers die on the job each year - 5,000 people killed by their work every day.
These statistics, the report makes clear, are an underestimate.

The Absolute Truth About
Earning A Living
http://www.anxietyculture.com/sermon.htm
Within the notion of “having to earn a living” is the assumption that you don’t automatically deserve to be alive.

Corporate Welfare Information Center
http://www.corporations.org/welfare/
"The $150 billion for corporate subsidies and tax benefits eclipses the annual budget deficit of $130 billion. It's more than the $145 billion paid out annually for the core programs of the social welfare state: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), student aid, housing, food and nutrition, and all direct public assistance (excluding Social Security and medical care)."

The Pursuit Of Happiness
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC37/Hunnicut.htm
In essence, the management of Kellogg's was sharing the benefits of that increased productivity with the workers in the form of free time.

DEPRESSING WAGES
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/articles/article285.html
Welfare cuts hurt recipients--and the working poor, too

WorkIs
http://ishmaelswiki.org/wiki/index.php?WorkIs
Quotes Gerry Spence: "Free men work when they are also free not to work"

Jobs
http://www.consciouschoice.com/citizen/citizen1410.html
Fear about jobs is creeping into American life from all corners.

Bill Gates Net Worth Page
http://www.quuxuum.org/~evan/bgnw.html
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

The War Against the Poor
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue30/mandel30.htm
The Homeless Unit feels like a war zone

Waiting for the Weekend
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/91aug/rybczynski-p1.htm
leisure should not be confused with liberty. Contrary to most people's expectations, the presence of the first by no means assures the availability of the second.

The Toil Yoke
http://www.higheryet.com/work.htm
Company policy and circumstances beyond his control left his results unnoticed and ignored.
He died young, of heart attack.

Huey Long's Senate speeches
http://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html
I ask somebody in every city, town, village, and farm community of America to take this as my personal request to call a meeting of as many neighbors and friends as will come to it to start a share-our-wealth society.

< Click to hear Huey Long

Getting Paid In Our Jobless Future
http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Columns/Change_Surfing/column.aspx?articleID=2003-09-22-1

By Dr. J
I think that it's time we all got on board the bus to robotic freedom.

Bob Black
http://www.zpub.com/notes/black.html
an anti-work legend

Benjamin Hunnicutt
http://www.shorterworkhours.com/
leisure professor

I seek to develop among my students a taste for doing the Liberal Arts and humanities by opening up discussion about free places, outside work, career, and the domain of "the professional," where sport, art, critical analysis, value creation, and language-- in short the humanities, can be regained and what Jurgen Habermas called the "collapse of the discussional" might be reversed.

A Little Slavery ... Please!
http://www.ebtx.com/work/work08.htm
Let us distinguish two types. +Whip-driven slavery. +Wage slavery.

Flâneur
http://www.flaneur.org/summer01/index_tait.html
What's a flâneur?

Sharon Beder
http://www.media-culture.org.au/0111/Beder.html
The compulsion to work has clearly become pathological in modern industrial societies.

Consumption
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/treat/tguide/tguide7.html
Americans throw away 7 million cars a year, 2 million plastic bottles every hour and enough aluminum cans annually to make 6,000 DC-10 airliners.

Paul Lafargue's
The Right To Be Lazy
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/works/lazy/index.htm
Like Christ, the doleful personification of ancient slavery, the men, the women and the children of the proletariat have been climbing painfully for a century up the hard Calvary of pain; for a century compulsory toil has broken their bones, bruised their flesh, tortured their nerves; for a century hunger has torn their entrails and their brains. 0 Laziness, have pity on our long misery! O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish!

Drapetomania
http://upalumni.org/medschool/appendices/appendix-43.html
Many African slaves were diagnosed with this psychosis, defined as, "An irrestrainable propensity to run away." For slaves with drapetomania, it was reported, a simple procedure - amputation of the toes - was used .

USBIG
http://www.usbig.net/
US Basic Income Guarantee Network

$25,000 a year
http://marshallbrain.com/25000.htm
If you are unemployed right now, think about the huge difference that a $25,000/year stipend would make to your chances of survival in this economy.

Only A Guaranteed Income
http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Columns/Change_Surfing/column.aspx?articleID=2003-09-22-1
The economy of abundance can sustain all citizens in comfort and economic security whether or not they engage in what is commonly reckoned as work.

Basic Income Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/francislerner/
payment would not be conditional on other income or lack of it, nor on willingness to work, nor on gender.

Citizen's Income
http://www.citizensincome.org/faqs/fq_0017208.shtml
an automatic, unconditional and nonwithdrawable income for every citizen

Technocracy, Inc.
http://www.technocracyinc.org/MainIndex.htm
to provide and distribute an abundance to everyone with a maximum of conservation of resources -- human and otherwise."

Statue
give me your tired, your poor....

What are you FOR?
http://phillyimc.org/article.pl?oppPrint&sidp01/11/23/0039242&modepthread
"We know what you're against," critics say, "BUT WHAT ARE YOU FOR?"

Separating Survival From work

The Quest For A Guaranteed Income
http://www.lalabor.org/GAI.html

Complete equalizing of income differentials could be realized by dividing the nation's total personal income by the population. This method, which would require a draconian taxation of upper income levels, would give all adults a $33,312 annual dividend, or $640 per week. A less drastic approach would provide each person with a two-thirds draw on their annual dividend, or about $22,200 per year

Theodore Roszak on Robert Schutz
http://www.earthlight.org/essay44_roszak.html

Bob's book is a skillful, beautifully-argued effort that musters all the most forceful arguments for an economics of equity and compassion. Can we afford to pay everybody in this country $30,000 a year? Just read his book.

Global Ideas Bank
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/home/
A Global Suggestion Box for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects.

Milgram Experiment
http://home.swbell.net/revscat/perilsOfObedience.html
Shocking

Everything2.com
http://www.everything2.com/

We Don’t Want Full Employment,
We Want Full Lives!
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/jobless.htm