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Is r/antiwork anti-technology and pro-crime?

Reading this post that got 22k likes: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/u3qv9y/fuck_self_checkouts/ and also reading the comments I am quite confused what this community wants. I agree with the idea of antiwork. Worker exploitation is bad and everyone should have the chance, if not being happy with ones job, to be at-least fairly treated and compensated for ones work. I am also a proponent of the UBI. But the two messages I got from this thread is that people agree in general that, 1. technology is bad because / if people lose their jobs because of it (Maybe we should remove electrical lightning from our streets and replace these with candles, so we can employ people to turn the candles on and off as it was done in the 19th century?), 2. crime is something one should tolerate (especially if it concerns scummy companies). Could be that this is a one odd out, but…


Reading this post that got 22k likes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/u3qv9y/fuck_self_checkouts/

and also reading the comments I am quite confused what this community wants. I agree with the idea of antiwork. Worker exploitation is bad and everyone should have the chance, if not being happy with ones job, to be at-least fairly treated and compensated for ones work. I am also a proponent of the UBI.

But the two messages I got from this thread is that people agree in general that, 1. technology is bad because / if people lose their jobs because of it (Maybe we should remove electrical lightning from our streets and replace these with candles, so we can employ people to turn the candles on and off as it was done in the 19th century?), 2. crime is something one should tolerate (especially if it concerns scummy companies).

Could be that this is a one odd out, but if that is the general message of this community then perhaps I am in the wrong place. This subreddit has a no calls for violence rule, but calls for petty theft / crime is ok I guess?

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