/lit/ - Literature

>>21680060
>dude, frogs! lmfao
Timeless.

Essential NEET books?

>Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists — except that I’m not kidding — I favor full unemployment. Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I agitate for permanent revelry. But if all the ideologues (as they do) advocate work — and not only because they plan to make other people do theirs — they are strangely reluctant to say so. They will carry on endlessly about wages, hours, working conditions, exploitation, productivity, profitability. They’ll gladly talk about anything but work itself. These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details. Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don’t care which form bossing takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of them have any objection to power as such and all of them want to keep us working.

>author's books are all variations on the same basic setting/plot

>>18281432
I actually agree with the other guy.
Equality is delusional, people are not equal and by insisting that they are everybody is saddled with the same responsibilities. Why should everyone contribute equally, when some have more than others?
The bottom 50% of earners SHOULDN'T contribute 50% of taxes. Rather, the top 10% of earners should bear 90% of the tax burden.
The strong have an obligation to protect the weak, which in Capitalism translates to the obligation of the rich to subsidize the unproductive lifestyles of the poor.
By promoting equality, you are absolving the strong from any responsibility, leaving the weak to fend for themselves.
Hence I'm firmly opposed to it.

>>10362969
I think I might go with the Sailor Pro Gear, then.

( This one: https://www.amazon.com/Sailor-Pen-fountain-professional-11-1222-220/dp/B001TI9LMU/ )

Great price, looks nice. I think it will work well for me.

Thank you for your guidance, Anon. I appreciate that you took the time to respond to me about all of this. I think I'll enjoy this very much--time to get comfy!