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Working For Life, Not Death

Ray Katz
4 min readOct 4, 2024

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The future of work, if there is a future, is less work and none of it for profit.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Right now, pretty much everywhere on Earth, most people spend most of their lives working and sleeping. They squeeze in living (when they can) in their very limited spare time. If they aren’t exhausted.

We are defined by our work and we identify with it. I’m an accountant, or a cashier, or a lawyer, or whatever. The thing that we do for money to live, not what we care about or believe in or would choose to think about if we had time—that’s how we think of ourselves.

Well, that’s bullcrap. We aren’t our jobs. We are human beings and what we care about and how we express ourselves and what we choose to do when we get a choice—THAT is who and what we are.

Freedom, when and if we ever achieve that, will be freedom to live as ourselves, and not as a cog in a machine run by undeserving elites.

My advice to you? Do as much real living TODAY and EVERY DAY while working to make everyone free. That’s the mission of our movement called The Saners.

Life and Liberty

Our group started out as a climate group, one dedicated to nonviolent noncooperation. It still is but the original mission proved to be too narrow.

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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