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Anti-work people are really a special case... If you don't want to work for someone else then start a business and work your arse off for yourself, if you don't want to do even that then quit society and go live in the woods like in this picture, maybe you'll survive, maybe you won't...
But 90℅ of these posts are about some utopia where all millionaires and up are dead, no one works and somehow it all works out...
There is an enormous gap between working to make ends meet and working on something that seems useful or important to you or your community. Anti-Work is not against work. It’s against being forced to beg for a job that keeps your belly full and planing your life from childhood on to be a resource for capitalists to harvest.
We are taught from a young age, that a persons worth correlates with their ability to be exploited for other people’s wealth. Almost every human want‘s to create something, wants to build, wants to help others in one way or another.
That's already a much more sensible view on anti work than i'm used to, I can see the argument in this. However there will be such ethically wrong jobs in the current system for as long as they don't get automated away.
Once that happens things could get even worse for the people dependent on such jobs, so we need to fight on forcing the wealth created by automation to be shared, either through UBI or some other system... This would partially eliminate that dependency maybe?
So in this place who's doing the day to day grind like being a janitor, a cashier, a trash collector or even the boring office jobs and so on?
It’s not the job that’s bad, it’s that there’s no purpose except making other people rich. A lot of people are pulling weeds in their garden, (which pretty annoying€ because they like their garden. I take my trash out without being payed to do so. Teachers work for bad pay, because they think their work is important.
Shut up asshole
"If you dont like working just work or else we wont have a wealthy elite class of greedy fucks who exploit everyone below them and are rewarded with several times their fair share in wealth"
Gargle gargle chortle chortle
Lmao. You know, billionaires are fuckers because they live off the production of other people. (Acording to you/ marxism). So you want to not work and still have food? How so? Through the labor of other people? You become what you say you are against.
Given the lower-than-ad hominem I won't even bother to try and correct you in deforming my words, just know that the very tech and infrastructure that allows you to say this was built by the system you say you hate...
Why don't you go live in the woods then?
