The Tom Woods Show, episode 934.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Folks, we're capitalists on this show, and we're not ashamed of that.

And one of the easiest places to be a capitalist is on the internet.

So, for example, if you've got a website and you're not monetizing it, then you're a schmuck.

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. What an article we are reviewing for you today. Oh my goodness.

This is an article written by a historian at Rutgers University named James Livingston, and it's basically called F Work. All right, we'll just put it that way. That's what it's called. The article is arguing that work is really, really unfulfilling for a whole lot of people,

and there aren't that many jobs anyway, and there are going to be ever fewer in the future.

And they're just mind-numbing and dead-end and pointless and a waste of everybody's time.

But we have this cultural attachment to the idea of work, so we keep on doing this, but surely there's a more

humane way to live, and wouldn't we have a tremendous burst of creativity and energy if we

weren't all tied down to miserable tasks as a way of supplying ourselves with the things we need to live.

So, anyway, there's so much in it, and somebody sent it to me and wanted me to answer it,

and I thought, I can't do this alone. No way. So, to share in the misery, Peter Klein is joining me today. Peter has been on the show in the past. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is professor of entrepreneurship at the business school at Baylor University, where he's also senior research fellow with the Center for

Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. He's also adjunct professor of strategy and management at the

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