Antiwork/Work Reform
A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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Date Created: June 15, 2023
Date Updated: July 17, 2023
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The Anti-Work Library 📚
Essential Reads
Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2013) | listen
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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It's also the agreed upon method we came up with for resolving disputes without beating factory owners to death in front of their kids as the meme the other day mentioned
I genuinely worry about massive eruptions of violence. Why doesn’t the upper class realize that if they keep pushing, keep taking more and more and more, one day shit is just going to break down.
Because they've spent a century brainwashing a majority of the workforce into believing unions are evil communist cults designed to teach people to eat babies.
Don't let rhetoric in communities like this fool you into thinking most people want to rise up against their oppressors. Theres a reason Republicans have as much support as they do.
They’ll keep the culture war going
They do, they call it “The Event”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
Every last one of these people has a name and an address. They’d rather us fight each other while their collared armed guards protect their bunkers than us fix the world. They want fascism so they can plunder a bit more before they go into their bunker. 7 billion human bodies don’t contain enough blood to sate their hunger.
I think general strikes like those seen in 1919 might come first.
Because they all believe they can hold that off for the next generation to deal with. They don't think it'll happen now.