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Is Antiwork doomed?

Briefly: During the pandemic, I saw all these idiotic stickers questioning vaccination. I say idiotic because they were. Most of the “arguments” were textbook examples of logical fallacies and Debate 101 mistakes. A very small number required a little more effort to realize the “gimmick” but all were equally debunkable and fundamentally insipid. I see NOTHING, zero, bupkis, nada, even close to the same level of guerilla advertising tactics from the antiwork movement. No stickers at eye level on poles at crosswalks, nothing on the sides of subway stations, nothing … And the antiwork arguments are far more logical and far more defensible. They make sense and can be shown to make sense. For example, I have never encountered a “good” argument for leaving health care in the hands of for profit organizations. I would, in fact, love to read one so that I could have that certainty that my…


Briefly: During the pandemic, I saw all these idiotic stickers questioning vaccination. I say idiotic because they were. Most of the “arguments” were textbook examples of logical fallacies and Debate 101 mistakes. A very small number required a little more effort to realize the “gimmick” but all were equally debunkable and fundamentally insipid.

I see NOTHING, zero, bupkis, nada, even close to the same level of guerilla advertising tactics from the antiwork movement. No stickers at eye level on poles at crosswalks, nothing on the sides of subway stations, nothing …

And the antiwork arguments are far more logical and far more defensible. They make sense and can be shown to make sense. For example, I have never encountered a “good” argument for leaving health care in the hands of for profit organizations. I would, in fact, love to read one so that I could have that certainty that my support is not just being given blindly to the concept of universal healthcare. But all I see is a bunch of people coming to the meeting place of this subreddit to complain about things the people on this subreddit already agree on.

I'm not saying this just to bitch and moan, but c'mon. I see there's a library of reading links. Where's the instructions for how to start spreading the word effectively?

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