I’m trying to finish Smilges’ Crip Negativity, it’s an academic slog in a lot of ways, but it’s a short read. He talks about this idea of labor normativity within our ableist society. Labor normativity is the idea that someone’s worth is defined by their capacity to work/ do “productive” labor. How it’s ableist against disabled people, and criticizes disability activism for making inclusion into the capitalist working world the focal point of disability politics to our detriment.
He brings up how labor normativity produces labor living, which we are all extremely familiar with. It’s a system that disguises laboring as living, our lives become the labor we do, where we have no identity outside of working and outside of the things we buy/distract ourselves with to replace our social needs (ex- social media addictions instead of building community, etc).
Anyway, I just thought that was interesting.