The anti-work ethic states that labor tends to cause unhappiness, therefore, the quantity of labor ought to be lessened. The ethic appears to have originated in anarchist circles and to have come to prominence with essays such as The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (External Link), published in 1985. Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy essay is one of the most classical work on the subject (Lafargue was Karl Marx's son-in-law). The followers of this ethic typically argue that capitalist and comm… (More on Anti-work)