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

[Floop]

Gais did u even read the FAQ? They’re not saying work is bad, they’re just saying capitalism sucks poo poo and work is hard uwu

 

[Coffee Shits]

Gais did u even read the FAQ? They’re not saying work is bad, they’re just saying capitalism sucks poo poo and work is hard uwu

For posterity, here's the first few entries to the FAQ. It's one big stream of booooo hooooo, I have to balance life obligations with leisure time.

While I think "what's wrong with that" has been answered upthread, I think they would be better served by someone telling them to put down the joint, post up a resume, and learn the value of a hard day's work.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Capitalism sucks, but it's better than being shipped off to a labor camp because you're labelled a "social parasite".

 

[The best and greatest]

With a little eugenics, and whittling down the human population to a few hundred thousand, it just might work.

After all, near-extinction is how Star Trek managed utopia.

The black plague precipitated the Renaissance. Maybe we're onto something.

 

[Tookie]

They may think the Star Trek society could work IRL.

Not just the automation, but the post-scarcity and everyone magically getting along too.

The urban white hipster crowd who goes for this sort of thing thinks we already are in a post-scarcity society. Everything from food to the latest Apple product magically appears on store shelves or Amazon boxes. It may not be a replicator but from their point-of-view it's pretty close. They never step outside their bubble so their awareness of the rest of the country where agriculture and manufacturing takes place is pretty minimal (which underpins a lot of their hostility when those people step out of line and remind them of their existence) and the concept of global supply chains isn't on their radar. It's an ironic byproduct of capitalism being so efficient at delivering consumer goods and mass media that it has given rise to people who think this way.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

And here I thought it was just the flyers on the lightposts and underpass. The antiwork movement also find support with aboriginal groups and mixed who believed the government fuck them over.

They also got some form of substance abuse habit.

 

[Floop]

And here I thought it was just the flyers on the lightposts and underpass. The antiwork movement also find support with aboriginal groups and mixed who believed the government fuck them over.

They also got some form of substance abuse habit.

YOURE LAUGHING NOW BUT YOU COULD LOSE YO JOB AT ANY MOMENT BECAUSE OF THE GOD DANG GOVERNMENT.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

God these people are so pathetic.

But of course they're commies and socialists. What do I expect?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

urban white hipster crowd

The same ones who think Current Year is a utopia - at least aside from all those mean old "Nazis" (people who disagree with them), and the existence of the capitalistic work r/antiwork is against?

 

[The Curmudgeon]

I love the idea of a post-work society, but it probably won't happen unless scientific, technological, social, and cultural changes make it possible. I have no idea how that would work. I just know I would love it if it happened in our lifetime!

 

[Cool kitties club]

Under communism you will just get to do whatever you want its not like production realities exist.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

These lazy parasites don't realize that almost no one wants to actually work. Most people would rather be at home sperging around or on vacation than at the office. However, jobs are important for society. Without doctors, paramedics, nurses, garbagemen, mailmen, postal employees, construction workers, etc..., we'd be screwed because you'd have to do all that shit yourself.

 

[Night Owl]

I'd love to not have to work, but that's not a world we live in. Besides, having your own money is actually quite liberating.

 

[Popoto]

I'm betting that every single one of them is addicted to some form of relaxant. Be it weed/porn/Funko pops/..., they're all consoomers that have never experienced the happiness that comes from creating something.

Look rate me late or autistic or whatever, but I read through six pages to ask how exactly in the world is a Funko Pop a relaxant. Is there a secret underground society of people who shove these things up their asses or something? If so, can we have a thread on that?

 

[don't tred on snek]

Look rate me late or autistic or whatever, but I read through six pages to ask how exactly in the world is a Funko Pop a relaxant. Is there a secret underground society of people who shove these things up their asses or something? If so, can we have a thread on that?

Consoomerism

 

[ditto]

But the idea of once socialism is installed, we will all be artists shows a real lack of pattern recognition.

There's a short story called Riders of the Purple Wage wherein everyone gets a PhD, a "purple wage" tugboat so that no-one has to work and the morbidly obese are common. Some get so bored they turn to terrorism.

It is exactly the kind of society that these antiwork folk advocate, and it's depressing and horrifying.

 

[frozenrunner]

I really hope The Last Night does a great job depicting the kind of hellscape these parasites would have us all live in.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

For posterity, here's the first few entries to the FAQ. It's one big stream of booooo hooooo, I have to balance life obligations with leisure time.

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While I think "what's wrong with that" has been answered upthread, I think they would be better served by someone telling them to put down the joint, post up a resume, and learn the value of a hard day's work.

"Saying we're anti-job is not quite right."
"We're against jobs."

Yeah, this is about the level of coherency and consistency I was expecting.

Capitalism sucks, but it's better than being shipped off to a labor camp because you're labelled a "social parasite".

It's also better than wallowing in poverty in a place where food, goods, and services are all scarce because the means of production are controlled by lazy fucks who mismanage and rarely produce anything with them and the people who would normally be productive have had their spirits crushed under the massive dead weight of toiling to support said lazy fucks, only finding solace in dropping out and becoming lazy fucks themselves, or suicide.

And then finally everyone is sent back to work at gunpoint.

That's the reality of societies where "antiwork" catches on.

 

[the fall of man]

These guys are the people who complain that t-shirts are exploitation but don’t try to come up with a better business, or who are “red pilled” and think the sex doll AI revolution is going to happen by late 2020, magically, somehow. Instead of trying to help whatever effort relates to their interests, they’re just waiting around to pounce on the first freebies.

 

[Positron]

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Brought to the logical conclusion, isn't literally anything you need to do for a better life slavery? "Oh, I must track the deer down to eat it. Nature is enslaving me."

Every social system is based on social contract -- you give something of yourself in exchange of something you need. If you are not happy with your side of the contract and want to opt out, you may be, in Rousseau's words, "forced to be free".