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On Beeing Productive

March 25, 2005 by discocisco

Having recently rejoined the ranks of the gleefully employed, I find myself contemplating the nature of work more than ever. Really, it’s an easy theoretical target, with all of its wonderfully intriguing dynamics and practices.

Some believe that modern business is a Neanderthal bartering transaction gone horribly awry. And it’s easy to understand – with all of the knuckle-dragging that goes on – why someone would think this. But if left to our own devices, would we actually trade-in our sensible black and charcoal garb for loin cloths and make a beeline from the iron cage to the local drumming circle? I’m skeptical.

Work, in fact of matter, IS what we make when left to our own devices. Being subservient-for-pay comes naturally to us. Performative disgruntlement aside, we love working. Some of us even spend a great deal of our discretionary time crossing over borders and walking through the admittedly beautiful crescent of southwestern desert just to get a piece of the labor pie.

Self-preservation is clearly one of the main motivations for working: the workplace is the battleground for survival. Easy enough, right? But the energy and enthusiasm with which we suscribe to the politics of resource allocation suggests additional, and potentially deeper, motivations. We work not in spite of, but in order to play political games. And we’re not the only ones. Witness the wonder of work in the rest of the biosphere.

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44 Responses to “On Beeing Productive”

on 25 Mar 2005 at 12:20 pm1 'Victor'

*admiring your intriguing blog* *Two thumbs from me
on 25 Mar 2005 at 2:01 pm2 Michael

come on and lie to me/like they do in the factory/make me feel as if at the end of the day/some great reward could be coming my way
on 29 Mar 2005 at 1:56 am3 Peaches Christ

Girl, you sure do know how to WORK.
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Well said.
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I love this blog, just so you know.
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