Antiwork

My mom was telling me about how hard her dad worked so much harder than us now make ends meet. He was a school teacher with a stay at home wife and 8 kids. To be able to pay off his mortgage sooner he borrowed money from his teenage kids. She goes on to complain about our generation expecting too much. I deadpan look her in the eyes and say “there’s no amount of money I could borrow from my teenage kids that could possibly put a dent in my 500k mortgage.” But this is the is the reality my mom grew up with. As a teenager my mother made enough money to put a sizeable dent in her fathers mortgage payment; and a teacher on a solo salary could afford a house and 8 kids. But you’re lazy for working 60 hours a week and expecting to afford both…

Are y’all involved in in person organizing? I’ve been feeling recently that I need to participate in some discussion and action/protest with people in my area. R/antiwork is great but there’s only so much healing and solidarity that can happen in a virtual community. Any advice is greatly appreciated

So, you guys remember how in the tv shows the boss would always visit the employee's house before a big promotion etc, and it was always this big ordeal. Why was that even a thing?

I'm looking for job situations that are remote and don't require more than an hour or less of hands on time every day, or preferably only every week. I keep seeing stories of tech savvy people getting a repetitive job and automating it with one or two programs and not really doing any hands on work afterwards besides a quick quality control check each day, or people getting a job and hiring it out to someone in a lower cost of living area to do for them. But how would someone go about actually doing this in real life? 1.)I can't quite figure out how people find jobs to use like this though; 2.)and secondly how you would go about either paying someone to make the automation program for you OR paying someone to just do the job for you. Because of disability it can't be an in person do…