I can’t see every post and read every comment, but I feel the general sentiment here is just people who work in offices complaining about workplace politics, and the end of WFH.
I don’t work a job like that. I don’t communicate with my boss and coworkers via email.
I don’t have numbers, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume most jobs aren’t in office spaces where emails are half the battle. You can’t work in trades or be a cook from your home.
I get the large scale implications of capitalism and government by making you come back to the office, but the way people frame their complaints about it sound like “poor me, I have to physically go to work”. That just doesn’t sound very sympathetic to me.
I’m not trying to belittle the cause of the office worker, but I just don’t identify with it. Much in the same way I feel none of those posters have other types of workers in mind.
There are people out there with jobs that are destroying their bodies, producing and moving real things with real value, but that’s probably the last thing on someone’s mind when they come to complain about their bosses latest email.
I don’t feel like the sentiment is antiwork, it’s “I want nice capitalism where I can stay at home and my boss isn’t mean”.
I have completely lost the feeling that r/antiwork was actually going to accomplish anything since the Fox News disaster.
If you read my rant to the bottom I appreciate it, I know these are just my personal feelings.