André Gorz

In books such as Farewell to the Working Class (1982), Paths to Paradise (1985), Critique of Economic Reason (1988), Reclaiming Work (2000) and the as yet untranslated L'Immatériel, Gorz argued that we are in the grip of a system that is abolishing work as we know it: the problem was not the destruction of employment as such, but the new system's irrational efforts to perpetuate the ideology of work as a source of rights — and, most importantly, of the right to an income.

Critique of Economic Reason (var lasīt līdz 1.6, tālāk sākās tipisks ļeru–ļeru). Highlight:

The connection between more and better has been broken; our needs for many products and services are already more than adequately met, and many of our as–yet–unsatisfied needs will be met not by producing more, but by producing differently, producing other things, or even producing less. This is especially true as regards our needs for air, water, space, silence, beauty, time and human contact. [..] As a result, the social process of production no longer needs everyone to work in it on a full–time basis. The work ethic ceases to be viable in such a situation and work–based society is thrown into crisis.

Mans verdikts:

Gorz commits the Luddite fallacy. He should've known better.