r/antiwork - Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.

[D.Va]

I discovered this subreddit the other day hoping for juicy drama posts of wagies pissing off their bosses but it's just teenage NEETS autofellating over twitter screen caps. if I wanted to read drivel written by a schizo whose only other hobby is gacha video games I'd just use twitter

 

[TurdFondler]

The sub is going through typical newfag issues and may never recover. A few months ago it was 90% posts about wagies quitting and it was cathartic.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

That's the dilemma with this place. A lot of the posts are people lamenting having to work a shitty job to stay afloat and getting nothing out of it. Nobody likes working shit jobs, especially if said shit job's benefits all go to enriching a cunt like Jeff Bezos. Nobody wants that garbage, and no one is going to complain if all the barriers and ridiculous requirements and corporate politics disappeared overnight. If the message the place was pushing came down to better wages and working conditions & taking people like Bezos / Zuckerberg / Buffet / Soros / etc down a peg, then there'd be little reason to dislike it.

You don't have to work for Bezos.

I blame a lot of this on the increasing complexity of the economy. A lot of /r/antiwork posters seem to work in retail/food service. There are more jobs out there than that! Plumbers in my area are literally begging for apprentices. My fuck-up friend from high school operates a hydro excavator. He makes six figures. Dude's half-retarded! And there's a whole field called certified occupational hearing conservationists!

Nobody knows about these jobs unless you know somebody who knows about these jobs though. That's the problem.

 

[Shaka Brah]

You don't have to work for Bezos.

I blame a lot of this on the increasing complexity of the economy. A lot of /r/antiwork posters seem to work in retail/food service. There are more jobs out there than that! Plumbers in my area are literally begging for apprentices. My fuck-up friend from high school operates a hydro excavator. He makes six figures. Dude's half-exceptional! And there's a whole field called certified occupational hearing conservationists!

Nobody knows about these jobs unless you know somebody who knows about these jobs though. That's the problem.

Your fuckup friend from school probably does that work for an uncle or friend of the family. It's not typical to get a 6 figure heavy equipment job without having a connection to the owner.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Your fuckup friend from school probably does that work for an uncle or friend of the family. It's not typical to get a 6 figure heavy equipment job without having a connection to the owner.

He doesn't, but I'll ask how he got the job if you want.

 

[Shaka Brah]

He doesn't, but I'll ask how he got the job if you want.

I'd be curious to know tbh. Those are coveted jobs that need heavy equipment operation licenses to work on (if you're American).

 

[Matt Damon]

These assholes have such a lack of knowledge of automation. Even the most "automated" manufacturing facilities in the world require tens of thousands of hours of human maintenance every year - imagining that you just set and forget automated production and they magically churn out product is so embarrassingly uninformed.

Automation is like a bicycle - you get a lot more output per unit of human effort, but it still requires that input. Maybe someday that won't be the case, but it's nowhere in the foreseeable future.

Hell, I wish it were all automatic. That would mean I could work with a lot fewer dumbfuck millwrights and trades guys.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

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Shhh! Nobody tell them about Victorian England or Louis XVI!

Americans were used to a certain standard of living. Especially if they were educated. That standard is no longer guaranteed post the 2008 recession. This may not be ''the worst capitalism, government corruption in history'' but it's not the type of life anyone was prepared for in a first world country. Most of the people complaining the most grew up middle class and were only introduced to poverty as adults ... the kicker is that they have a degree.

 

[Stasi]

I've been lurking this sub recently and it's pretty cathartic reading about wagies rising up I gotta admit, and now and then there is a post with some good points. It's 90% screen caps though which I'm pretty sure are mostly fake because of how ridiculous they are

Wagie: I broke both my legs and my parents died and also I have cancer, I can't come into work today.
Manager: You worthless pleb, that just shows your total lack of commitment to this corner store. What is more important, a career in shelf stacking or your dead parents? You are coming in or you are fired
W: you can't fire me, I quit also my uncle works at Nintendo and his name is Albert Einstein

Also some of these faggots can't help but drag their gay sjw shit into this with post like "Just a reminder, police work isn't real work, cops don't deserve wages, ACAB, kill the piggies". Like what the fuck that got to do with anything on this kind of sub? Fuck off back to whatever breadtube shithole you came from.

 

[Wallace]

You don't have to work for Bezos.

I blame a lot of this on the increasing complexity of the economy. A lot of /r/antiwork posters seem to work in retail/food service. There are more jobs out there than that! Plumbers in my area are literally begging for apprentices. My fuck-up friend from high school operates a hydro excavator. He makes six figures. Dude's half-exceptional! And there's a whole field called certified occupational hearing conservationists!

Nobody knows about these jobs unless you know somebody who knows about these jobs though. That's the problem.

There's a serious case of tunnel vision among kids with regards to careers. Aimlessness breeds a lack of effort, even by teenager standards, so they take the paths of least resistance.

 

[TheClansmen]

Mfw humanity advanced past anarchic farming societies and created rational governments.

 

[Shaka Brah]

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Mfw humanity advanced past anarchic farming societies and created rational governments.

I completely agree with the sentiment, usury is a sin and forcing people to pay to live on land they own is meant to disenfranchise them, but it's just a LARP from these bougie idiots. None of these people could handle farming on a homestead. They couldn't name any popular farming techniques if their lives depended on it.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

I completely agree with the sentiment, usury is a sin and forcing people to pay to live on land they own is meant to disenfranchise them, but it's just a LARP from these bougie idiots. None of these people could handle farming on a homestead. They couldn't name any popular farming techniques if their lives depended on it.

You and I both know they’re not talking about farming, they think that food just magically grows and ends up on store shelves for them to cram down their throats. The sub is anti-work, and that means any sort of productive labor.

 

[TheClansmen]

You and I both know they’re not talking about farming, they think that food just magically grows and ends up on store shelves for them to cram down their throats. The sub is anti-work, and that means any sort of productive labor.

Exactly.

Not a single person who is active in that subreddit could actually handle farming and growing their own food. They won't admit it but they rely on corporations for their needs.

 

[Matt Damon]

They won't admit it but they rely on corporations for their needs.

I'd argue that they don't even know it - they intuitively believe that a supermarket every three miles with an inexhaustible supply of goods is the natural state of things rather than an incredible achievement of modern civilization that only exists because of unimaginable hard work and precarious circumstances that could change at any moment.

 

[incelistan]

I was told that some Redditor was getting flustered about the sub not being full-on tankie, but their seething is a bit amusing. They posted these screenshots:

And reached this conclusion on a separate Redditor's Discord:

I think the story just shows the magic of Reddit: mods handing out warnings like candy to tankies who are engaging in Socratic discourse and decide that subreddits are a psyop because they don't like Stalin and Mao enough.

 

[jje100010001]

I completely agree with the sentiment, usury is a sin and forcing people to pay to live on land they own is meant to disenfranchise them, but it's just a LARP from these bougie idiots. None of these people could handle farming on a homestead. They couldn't name any popular farming techniques if their lives depended on it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It never gets old. They're so smart and wise, they're incapable of learning anything new.

 

[Meiwaku]

is that cardboard?? also this looks shooped

 

[Flaming Insignias]

is that cardboard?? also this looks shooped

Oh it was real, and it was the single greatest demonstration on why those Seattle Capitol Hill Insurrectionists were doomed to failure.