how can I/we live a life free of wage slavery?
If you ask this question in earnest, and trust yourself to find the answers that will work for you, guidance will come to you in some form. Listen for it, and act on it! We sympathize with your worries, since most of us have faced them sooner or later. But we still maintain that a shift in attitude is the first and most important step toward freeing oneself from wage slavery. Not the ONLY step, mind you–just the FIRST one. Figuring out the mechanics of the practical stuff–the “how can I do this” part–comes much easier after the shift in attitude, not before. These ideas can be slippery and subtle at times. Don’t minimize the emotional struggles involved; we’ve found that they are very deeply rooted and are not likely to vanish overnight. The focus of CLAWS is re-thinking the work ethic, so we have gone into great depth on attitude because we’ve found through experience that guilt about laziness and other relics of the Puritan work ethic run very deep in capitalist cultures. Thus, sh
