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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts_ from the GNP...Work no longer means the creation of a value perceived by the worker but mainly a job, which is a social relationship. Unemployment means sad idleness, rather than the freedom to do things that are useful for oneself or for one's neighbour. An active woman who runs a house and brings up children and takes in those of others is distinguished from a woman who 'works,' no matter how useless or damaging the product of this work might be.

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Ivan Illich

The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies