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[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You can, you just have to step outside the bounds of what the system says you should do, which is not a statement about the legality of one's path but rather one's ability to not be a lemming. Figure out how to break free. I figured out how to generate massive amounts of attention. The FBI said no, I gotta have education first. But y'know, what I'm saying is, if you know how to generate 100k views on a profile per day, or juggle, or write 2k-7k words a day without AI or drugs, well, those are examples of things that can open doors you don't see because you're looking at the world the way you've been programmed. And if you figure out how to do a buncha stuff like that together for a good purpose, you get used in bigger picture shit, because our culture is engineered.

[–] Blaad@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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...

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] calavera@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Blaad@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Blaad@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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?

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You got suckered hard, jobs don't exist. Feel free to walk off!

--# Says 30 year old man in a work outfit

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hell, I fucking love working and EVEN THEN all my previous jobs felt soul-crushing every single day in hindsight.

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Why can't we live ust like it's a peaceful Minecraft server where I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor? I know I'm a good worker. I would have everything a person possible can get, I feel exhausted, unappreciated by my job, and I live from paycheck to paycheck despite several increases in the last few years.

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