First of all, think about that word. Anti work. The antithesis of work. The opposite of work. Workn't, if you will… a lot of people seem to think this sub is about a LOT of things, but rarely is “workn't” one of them. People who have never been here think we want to all be lazy and live of food stamps and welfare while other people work. Those people are delusional, and think that the concept of a “job” is vital for human development. I think it stems back to the puritans, with ideals like “idle hands are the devil's plaything” and “I'm dying not because of my lifestyle but demons have infected my blood!” … tragic. But more tragic than that are the other group of misconceivers.
People have postulated for some time now that the greatest threat to any progressive movement is not and never will be those that fight against it, but rather those that claim to fight for it, only to accept half measures and compromises in exchange for proper growth. We have seen this time and time again since the civil rights movement in America. I think about so many people who have flooded this sub, convinced that this is a “workers rights movement.” SMALL FUCKING BANANAS JACKASS. Workers rights are, at their most important, a short term goal to mitigate the tragedy that is the working world. This movement is about Personal Rights. Citizen's Rights to not be coerced and strong armed into servitude by strenuous circumstance.
We live in a time of Gross Abundance. Enough food and resources to feed and fund the world twice over if both of those things weren't being hoarded and controlled by inhuman, inhumane, insidious, inept “leaders” that we have been pitted against one another to fight on behalf of a side of the one coin.
I live in a world likely unlike yours. Went to an orphanage when I was 5, beaten and abused my whole life, I got my first Job when I was 16. 8 dollars an hour. After taxes, little over 100 bucks a week. After 2 years with nothing to spend money on yet, I only had a few hundred dollars in savings, between having to feed and clothe myself and wanting to spend the money that I sacrificed my teenage years to get on something nice (I bought a PS4, and it is still the greatest investment I've ever made. I'd be dead now without it, for a couple reasons.) Almost 10 years later, and nothing has changed. No one in my area wants to pay greater than 8 dollars an hour, or is offering a job with Prerequisites I could never hope to meet. I've done it all too; tech support (freelance, the only “job” I ever had that didn't make me wanna kill myself, but as a young guy with no proper degree or certifications or whatever clientèle is difficult to build), construction (yeah actual fucking construction. Almost died in a port-a-john that was a wild time), customer service at grocery stores, management at grocery stores, waiting tables, barista at Starbucks. I was once a multi millionaire's personal assistant (he made me move statues around his yard), so many jobs I have experienced, and they all have a common denominator. You need the Green Paper if you don't want Uncle Sam to shoot you in the head. Better go beg some guy with a ton of it and he'll tell you “okay, go forage for the Green Paper. Bring me 1000, you keep 1 sound fair?” If you say yes, you're a chump. If you say no, you get the bullet.
So we need to abolish this foraging nonsense.
There is no definitive 1 right answer to get there, but there are infinitely many wrong answers.
Compromising, “little victories,” giving up before the work is done.
It's feels like this movement is gonna track like the civil rights movement, where a lot of people who actually get it are gonna fight for freedom, then some politician is gonna pass a florally written law that dictates minimum wage be 30 dollars an hour and mandatory overtime “isn't permissable by law” and then half of you motherfuckers are gonna throw your hats in the air, jump up and down and say “YAY WE DID IT!!! WE ENDED THE EXPLOITATION OF THE WORKING CLASS!!!!!!” which is fucking DEAF. Class systems exist so that those who run them can exploit those who don't. We need to delete the concept of the “working class.” When that is done, we will know we have made progress (you'll notice I didn't say job's done).
I don't know when “society” in America was suffocated to death, when people stopped wanting to grow together. It seemed to happen before my time. But we need to unite, we need to fight.
Quit your job if you just, but otherwise GET FIRED. Employers rarely ever contact your previous jobs, you aren't obligated to tell them you ever worked at the place you got fired from, THERE ARE NO NEGATIVE REPERCUSSIONS TO GETTING FIRED INSTEAD OF QUITTING.
So all the people, quitting to this day, what gives? Who are you, and why can't you read the fine print?
All the people, warning us “not to pick fights” what makes you think there exist multiple, separate fights too be picky with? There's the one fight, it's always raging. It's a fucking mosh pit out here.
Corporations have more rights than me. If I steal from a Corp, I go to jail. There's repercussions. It's illegal.
If a Corp steals from me, steals from you, they are the picture of innocence. Only way you're seeing them in court in the first place is if you blow more resources than you could hope to on a Civil Lawsuit (not a Legal Suit, a Civil Suit. Negotiation court.) Where some Corpo jackass with his combed over haircut and dumb fucking 2 piece suit will turn up, provide a bunch of strangely named documents that “prove” that the corporation was NOT involved in your missing paycheck and now you've wasted everything.
Antiwork till I fucking die, I will work myself to death if it means I am not holding a job. I will never charge my fellow man for goods or services rendered. I wanted to say something about landlords here but they're scum.