Work or die is a threat presented as a choice. A few people claim to β¦
Work is the great curse. It produces men without spirit and without soul. In order to make others work for one's benefit, one must lack personality, and to work one must also lack personality; one must crawl and traffic, betray, deceive and falsify. For the rich idlers, the work (of the workers) is the means of providing oneself with an easy life. For the workers themselves it is a burden of misery, a bad fate imposed from birth, which prevents them from living decently.
When we cease to work, then our lives will begin.
— Never Work by Herman J. Schuurman, AndrΓ© Thirion, George Woodcock, and 2 others (Page 14)