'the right to useful unemployment'
"A retooling of contemporary society with convivial rather than industrial tools implies a shift of emphasis in our struggle for social justice; it implies a new kind of subordination of distributive to participatory justice. In an industrial society, individuals are trained for extreme specialization. they are rendered impotent to shape or or to satisfy their own needs. They depend on commodities and on the managers who sign the prescriptions for them. The right to diagnosis of need, prescription of therapy, and - in general - distribution of goods predominates in ethics, politics and law. This emphasis on the right to imputed necessities shrinks the liberty to learn or heal or move on one's own to fragile luxuries. In a convivial society, the opposite would be true. The protection of equity in the exercise of personal liberties would be the predominant concern of a society based on radical technology: science and technology in the service of a more effective use-value generation. Obviously, such equitably distributed liberty would be meaningless if it were not grounded in the right to equal access to raw materials, tools and utilities. Food, fuel, fresh air or living space can no more be equitably distiributed than wrenches or jobs unless they are rationed without regard to imputed need, that is in equal maximum amounts to young and old, cripple and president. A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive liberties cannot come into existence unless the commodities and resources on which the exercise of these liberties is based are equally distributed to all."
this was the postscript to 'tools for conviviality' and inspired a possible title: 'the architecture of anarchy and its professional enemies'