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Working Just to Live Isn’t Living

Young Americans want more than just to survive in a broken system.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Jan 17, 2025
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“Man, like every other organism, can only live by the transformation of his environment to his own use,” wrote Hilaire Belloc. “He must transform his environment from a condition of where it is less to a condition where it is more subservient to his needs.”

The modern condition of work and life is a perversion of that ord…

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