Only upon the firm foundation of factory fascism and office oligarchy do libertarians and Leninists dare to debate the trivial issues dividing them. Toss in the mainstream conservatives who feel just the same and we end up with a veritable trilateralism of pro-work ideology seasoned to taste. By thousands subordinating their will to the will of one. But freedom means more than the right to change masters. Hospers and other libertarians are wrong to assume, with Manchester industrialist Engels, that techhnology imposes division of labor independent of social organization.
Industrial technology is much more the product than the source of workplace totalitarianism.
Most work serves the predatory purposes of commerce and coercion and can be abolished outright. Even if you think everything I've said about work, such as the possibility of its abolition, is visionary nonsense, the anti-liberty implications of its prevalence would still hold good. The time of your life is the one commodity you can sell but never buy back. Murray Rothbard thinks egalitarianism is a revolt against nature, but his day is 24 hours long, just like everybody else's. If you spend most of your waking life taking orders or kissing ass, if you get habituated to hierarchy, you will become passive aggressive, sado-masochistic, servile and stupified, and you will carry that load into every aspect of the balance of your life.