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"While Marxism stresses the redistribution of ownership of the
means of production, Illich is critical of proposals that allow the
market to retain its position of privilege in everyday life. Rather,
he insists that “excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal
employment, no matter how well-distributed, destroy the social,
cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”
Recently, for example, the trial of a four-day work week in Iceland
appeared to have positive outcomes, including increased family time.
But in the major English-language report analyzing data from the
trial, success is also framed in terms of economic gains, celebrating
the fact that shorter working hours can lead to greater productivity.
We still live in what Illich calls “an age of commodity-defined
needs,” and our mentality around “leisure time” continues to be
defined by consumption. On the other end of the political spectrum,
while Illich’s emphasis on individual autonomy may appear to align
with the libertarian opposition to regulation and central planning,
there is a fundamental difference: Libertarians associate freedom with
the free market; Illich insists that it does not lie in the market at
all, but in domains of human activity that can be sustained outside
the commodified realm of economic relations.
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The importance of limits is a key touchpoint in Illich’s thought. He
identified the “vernacular” domain as fundamental to the flourishing
of human autonomy. From the Latin vernaculum, meaning “homebred,
homespun, homegrown, homemade,” Illich took it to comprise the broad
spectrum of agricultural techniques, building styles, culinary
traditions, and language patterns that emerge when non-economic,
non-standard modes of being are allowed to thrive. While the concept
of scarcity is predicated on the concept of limitlessness — endless
wants interpreted as needs — Illich understood that freedom requires
limits. It is only by curtailing runaway economic and technological
development that the vernacular can survive."
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