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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?