This is your periodic friendly reminder. I get that this sub exploded and now contains users across the political spectrum, not just anarchists and lefties. I welcome all people who want to open their mind to ideas that might be new to them. I see this as a very good thing.
In between job grievances I see post after post about incremental change and little tweaks here and there to make the system a little less shitty when the aim and goal of the antiwork movement is to abolish work altogether. A concept I understand can be extremely difficult for some to wrap their mind around. Just totally dismissable on its face.
If you’re not going to read the material in the sidebar, I’m begging you to at the very minimum read Bullshit Jobs by the late David Graeber. You can read it for free on that link or listen to it on audible if that’s your thing.
He outlines in detail just how damaging Bullshit Jobs are at every level. From our internal psychology to climate change. He ends a book with an extremely compelling case for a radical and totally universal basic income. I’m guessing most of you are here because you sense this on some level.
We all caught a tiny glimpse of what ending work could be like when pandemic lockdowns happened and people got paid to stay home. People learned to bake sourdough, connected with their loved ones more, adopted pets, and just generally enjoyed having more leisure time.
This isn’t some wild pipe dream. It’s more or less how humanity organized societies for the vast majority of its existence. Don’t take my word for it, read from a literal anthropologist who devoted his entire life to studying humanity and its history. The conclusions he arrives at are impossible to argue with imo.
We can, should, and will create a better world.
And if for whatever reason you can’t fathom ending work then just stay out of the way.
/rant