I was at the library the other day, and I came across a book called “Not Working”. It is not online, so don’t search it, but I can go photograph some pages if anyone cares.
Basically, it’s written by the unemployed members of society in the Reagan era. The author interviews hundreds of people, and the entire book is their accounts on why they are unemployed.
What I find funny, is that all he had to do was ask them the question once, and dozens upon dozens of paragraphs are spoken from the unemployed person, defending their position, making up all sorts of excuses, blaming the president, whites would blame the minorities for taking all the work, men would blame women, women would blame men, minorities would blame citizens.
I started laughing out loud in the library, almost crying. Here were hundreds of accounts of people who, just like us on this subreddit, had taken the position that working is not the best for them, and they are not to blame for being a bad person because of it. So many stories ring so strikingly similar.
This got me thinking: these movements have occurred throughout history, and nothing has ever solved them. This is not a new movement. When Doreen went on Fox News and ruined the Reddit movement, the subscribers of this sub stagnated at 2 million. Why should I, or we for that matter, have any reason to believe we can fight this? It is a force greater than ourselves. It is so deeply embedded in psychology and human nature, that I feel helpless. I just have to accept some people are going to have to refuse to work, and I will be one of them.