“We do zero work and pass the markup on to you!”

To hell with unemployment: I think it’s a fine thing. I like sleeping all day and having nothing to do but read, write, and sleep whenever I feel tired. I like waking up in the morning and going immediately back to bed if the weather is foul. In short, I think it’s a fine situation for a man to be in: provided, of course, that he has enough money to eat and pay the rent.
I don’t … and therefore must work: but what the hell? Is it anything to cry and pray for forgiveness about? [ … ] Hell no it’s not. I get goddamn tired of getting letters telling me to “buck up”, to “keep my chin up,” to “keep trying,” to "pray and be virtuous," and to read Horatio Alger books. I like being unemployed. I’m lazy. There are plenty of jobs, but I just plain damn don’t want to work. It’s that simple [ … ] and I have an ode:

“Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, as he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed:
To hell with rent … I’ll drink instead!”

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives … and to the “good life,” whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

So there you have it: a slacker’s credo for pleasure …

— Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, “The Proud Highway”

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