If work is so amazingly dignifying and good for you, then why did we invent all those labour-saving machinery in the last 10 000 years, and why did workers fight tooth and nail for the 8-hour workday? (12-hours was the norm before that)
Checkmate, critics of the anti-work ideology. All humans implicitly agree, that the less work the better: the anti-work ideology is just taking this to its logical conclusion.
We may not necessarily have all the answers to how will we get there – as in, to a world where no one has to work anymore – but we sure know, that we ought to be striving for it. To shame “laziness” is to shame human nature. Pro-work capitalists like to use “muh human nature” as some sort of gotcha against Communism, but the modern idea of work – sitting in a cubicle for longer and longer hours for diminishing results, listening to angry customers for no avail, the same shit happening every day and you getting home with zero sense of accomplishment – is even more at odds with human nature, than the ideology that Marx cooked up in the mid-19th century.
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is what every human secretly desires. We're just more honest about it.
Work is anything but dignifying – it's ALIENATING.