As the conditions for unemployment benefits continue to tighten, let’s take a look at how popular culture bears witness to an existence without a job.
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If we are to believe the songs of artists who neither like suits and ties nor waking up at dawn, it is possible to live without working. And if one is inclined to believe the songs literally, one can think that such people exist, who think and live like in this song by Zoufris Maracas.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Zoufris Maracas, I don’t like to work, 2012
The Apaches, Unemployed, 1999
Scammers, Assedic, 1994
Neg’Marrons, ANPE, 1997
Akhenaten, Break out an Assedic type, 1995
Zebda, Unemployment, 1995
Monique Morelli, The unemployed man, 1971
Bernard Lavilliers, The Golden Hands, 2001
Bénabar, What did you want me to say to him? 2005
Orchestra of Socialist Associations, Song of the future, 1938
Stiff Heads, Work, 1998
Zebda, Unemployment, 1995
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