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I'm sticking with Alice Walker - "work is love made visible".  What I'm
talking about has nothing to do with bosses.  Seems to me work and love
in these senses are the most difficult things there are, but hey, Marx
ignored them in his ideas of economy, so why shouldn't you?

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>The dignity of work is a concept invented by bosses to
>reconcile people to cleaning houses, maintaining
>sewers, digging coal, teaching recalcitrant children
>and all sorts of other unpleasant activities bosses
>would prefer to have done by others. Dignity is not
>having to do any of that (and not having anyone you
>have think of as a boss) and being able to get on what
>you want, and the proof of it is that when you're
>doing what you want, there are no unpleasant bits. I
>can't think of anything to do with writing, including
>proof-reading and redrafting, that I don't enjoy.

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Alison











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