bullshit jobs and bringing my laptop to work
I'm at the point where Graeber is outlining a history of work -- specifically it's Puritanical influences and draconic, medieval structure:
"The poor were seen as frustrated adolescents. Work — and specifically, paid labor under the eye of a master — had traditionally been the means by which such adolescents learned how to be proper, disciplined, self-contained adults."
"What this meant in human terms was, first of all, that millions of young people found themselves trapped in permanent social adolescence. As the guild structures broke down, apprentices could become journeymen, but journeymen could no longer become masters, which meant that, in traditional terms, they would not be a position to marry and start families of their own. They were expected to live their entire lives effectively as unfinished human beings."
*I've been feeling really at my job. 'Perks' in exchange for the damage that busywork does to your soul. Maybe I'll bring my laptop with me tomorrow and work on my backed up zine ideas -- something I love that's actually doing a little good in my corner of the world.