Labor Avoidance The Origins of Inhumanity [Paperback]

Labor is something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape. Labor Avoidance explores American capitalism, the only social system that openly avoids labor, and how it has become responsible for so much human struggle and misery throughout history.Labor Avoidance is about work, something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape. At the same time, human nature is to sustain life that is physical, and thus constant labor is a necessity. This is what humanity, from Eden to our own post-industrial society, has always tried to reduce or avoid by making somebody else do it. Historically, this nature and origin of labor-avoidance is responsible for war, colonialism, slavery, and now, contract employment in market society. This book explores American capitalism and how labor (and the desire to escape it) has become responsible for so much human struggle and misery throughout history.IntroductionChapter 1. Between Nature and SocietyChapter 2. Our Human NatureChapter 3. The Origins of All ThingsChapter 4. Trouble in ParadiseChapter 5. Eden RevisitedChapter 6. Between Here and ThereChapter 7. We Must Still Eat to LiveChapter 8. Somebody Elses LaborChapter 9. Somebody Elses EnergyChapter 10. Somebody Elses LifeChapter 11. Romans, Nazis, and AmericansChapter 12. To Work or Not to WorkChapter 13. The Talented, Best, and Brightest FewChapter 14. The No-Labor PromiseChapter 15. The Golden Age of AmericaChapter 16. Capitalism Destroys Americas Golden AgeChapter 17. A Day in the New ParadiseChapter 18. Adam Smith Never Knew CapitalismChapter 19. To Work or To PlayChapter 20. Master or SlaveChapter 21. The Beginnings of Good and EvilChapter 22. From Tools to MachinesChapter 23. Here Comes the Lazy BodyChapter 24. The Sweet Stench of PowerChapter 25. The Daring Escape that FailedChapter 26. What Was, What Is, What Might Have BeenChapter 27. Two Variations and a RecapitulationChapter 28. Freewill and the LawChapter 29. Robinson Crusoe and FridayChlóz