Le fondateur du site de gauche "Frustration Magazine", Nicolas Framont, a promu son livre contre le monde du travail dans une interview-vidéo de "Welcome To The Jungle", le média préféré des jeunes start-uppers frustrés des entreprises à la papa. Qui n'a laissé la vidéo en ligne que deux jours, avant de la supprimer en arguant d'une évolution de sa ligne éditoriale. Aurait-il touché les limites de ce que peut être un "média de marque" ?

Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.

Beyond that, we should be thinking about proactive moves too—the time has never been better to advocate for a 4-day workweek, for instance. We’re just taking the AI companies, who say they’re in the process of ushering in a sublime productivity revolution, at their word! What better way to ensure all workers, not just CEOs, share the benefits of this presumably enhanced efficiency? While we’re at it, the same case might be made to agitate for universal healthcare again, too. The case should be obvious: In a world of hyperabundance, everyone gets access to free healthcare. It should be the very first thing. Anything else is immoral. Otherwise you get Elysium.

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If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it's hard to see how they could have done a better job. Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)—and particularly its financial avatars—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value. Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3–4 hour days.

Devrais-je m'étonner que le monde moderne cherche à rendre productif (et donc exploitable) jusqu'à notre sommeil ? Non.
Devrais-je m'en effrayer ? Oui, mais je ne sais pas si j'en ai encore le courage…

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