Category: Antiwork

I’ve been cleaning up litter for a while now. I do this on my own, not through any organization nor for any monetary pay. I do this because it needs to be done. I’ve also volunteered, in the past, to help with animals as well as the homeless. I have never seen a dime for this type of work, which is desperately needed, more so than any help I can ever give. Meanwhile, I’ll fucking starve if I don’t sell my time to some unnecessary business to do a bullshit job. I’m told I don’t have any skills, when, in reality, I just don’t have any skills that business owners can easily exploit. Can they identify wild flora? Do they know how to dispose of different types of waste? Do they know how to properly care for a sick or an injured dog? Do they know how to comfort someone…

I'm curious what people here think: can you be antiwork and believe in capitalism? I see many people here who are not socialists or communists, but I think that capitalism is inherently opposed to antiwork values. Capitalism requires exploitation in order to function.

I’m an independent contractor and my boss went on vacation for a week. During that week, I continued to do assistant duties. (It was small tasks, but it still took my time). After reminding them that they didn’t pay me yet, they finally sent me the payment. They text me “let’s get in a call at x”. I usually agree but I’ve learned that as an independent contractor you dictate your schedule. So I told them I wasn’t available and tomorrow at x is when I’m available. They agreed. But it had a condescending tone to it. Now they want to know the tasks that I did. This is my first time as an independent contractor and doing taxes and I wasn’t expecting to pay good chunk of taxes.