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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

Go and peddle your 'philosophy' to someone who is interested.

As I now don't do it, work is of zero interest. :)

That said...

Me neither, but we do still need other people to work for us.

So one question is what we do for people who are exploited when they work for us. :oops:
 
Go and peddle your 'philosophy' to someone who is interested.

As I now don't do it, work is of zero interest. :)

That said...
it's not a philosophy - you just don't understand what exploitation is. work is exploitation - it's not an opinion. if you have no interest in work, why are you banging on about it?
 
What's terrible about that article?
It's not very good - too waffly and does not get to the bones of the issue - and I'd argue with some of the points it makes but there are far, far worse pieces than this one.
 
For Sasaferrato

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It doesn't matter whether you're doing a job you love, a job you hate; whether it's easy with a pleasant working environment, or endless back-breaking toil while wading in shit; whether you get loads of holidays and "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work"... when your employer makes a profit from your labour (i.e. extracts surplus value), then it's exploitation.
 
Good old Grauniad (or at least I hope this is a typo):

The 900sqm apartment, which includes a shower room and open-plan living space, was too compact for structural changes. “I had to delve into my bag of tricks,” she says. There’s a lot you can do with pattern and colour. It was a large challenge in a small space.

 
Even 90sqm is not ungenerous for a modern flat, most one beds in London are around 50 or 60. A lot of terraced houses around the same too.

(eta for clarity 900 sq ft which is probably what they meant is roughly 90 sq m, you just divide by ten and it’s in that ballpark - actual figure 10.7 something)
 
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Even 90sqm is not ungenerous for a modern flat, most one beds in London are around 50 or 60. A lot of terraced houses around the same too.

yes - since i'm not quite sure what a square metre looks like, i've just had a look on an estate agent website, and found what strikes me as an average 2 bed flat (post war woolwich borough council build) - it's 54 sqm / 581 sq ft.
 
guardian film hack offhandedly trashes Barbara Windsor's entire career because she stopped making the sort of art that middle class journos approve of - ignoring the fact that she fully embraced - and excelled - in her roles in carry on and east enders and that they were the foundation of her success and popularity.

Before Carry On typecast her, Barbara Windsor was a brilliant kitchen sink star | Peter Bradshaw

Windsor did great work on stage for Joan Littlewood but (like another Littlewood alumnus, Harry H Corbett) she went into more undemanding comedy.
yeah cos comedy - and presumably TV soaps as well - are "undemanding" not like proper acting.
 
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