Antiwork

I made a Facebook group post; the group is a private company employee group (non union to talk about work and not letting management control the narrative). I made a post about a similar job in my trade field that is getting a huge pay raise. My post was time for our company to step up the pay. That's it end of the post. Someone comment if I have it so bad that I can go to the higher paying company. This comment made me angry; I probably should just ignore the comment. I know it wouldn't do any good arguing with a company person. Why can't I like my job but also want more money? I was trying to think of a clever way to respond, but everything that I think of sounds like I'm just insulting them. if I were to respond to his post. What would be…

I know most of the people here are against work (duh), but what about if that work is going towards your own business, that you’re actually passionate about? Like most of you, I absolutely hate corporate culture and everything to do with it. I absolutely do not intend on creating some multi million dollar corporation. However, I do enjoy working, as long as it’s something I like, and am passionate about. I love making progress and advancing further in life, and feel as though a business would allow me to put in 100% of my effort into my own passion, rather than putting it straight into some corporate scum’s pockets. Of course I would try my best to avoid all of the things I don’t like about other companies/jobs along the way. I’d like to pay a good wage, give benefits, etc, to the fullest extent I can afford. I…

“These tyrants, living solely on plunder, and on the labour of their slaves, and applying all their energies to the seizure of still more plunder, and the enslavement of still other defenceless persons; increasing, too, their numbers, perfecting their organisations, and multiplying their weapons of war, they extend their conquests until, in order to hold what they have already got, it becomes necessary for them to act systematically, and co-operate with each other in holding their slaves in subjection. But all this they can do only by establishing what they call a government, and making what they call laws . . . Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to plunder and enslave others, and hold them as property.” Lysander Spooner

Money has been the unit by which wealth is measured; those regarded as rich and wealthy have money in abundance (in what ever form it may be) and those who are called poor are wanting of money. As a result of the social classes that the possession and lack of money has made in the society, money is regarded as the source of power and control. They that possess money in abundance seem to assume control and power over those who do not (consciously or unconsciously). This possession of wealth has been said (according to psychological and social experiments) to lead to hatred of the rich by the poor and lack of compassion for the poor by the rich. The interplay of these two forces has put the desire and acquisition of money in an unfriendly state; as the root of all of society’s misfortunes and evil.

On the introverted end. I'd just walk around downtown listening to music, not a care in the world, just looking at my surroundings and taking it all in. Sometimes I'd even make conversation with strangers here and there, though it was mostly brief. I'd drink coffee or tea as I walked, and one of the main benefits of that was that it kept me fairly in shape. Now I struggle to make the time. With work as a factor in the equation it's not been as easy. But fuck do I miss my aimless walking time. And I miss the good shape it got me in. Walking daily really does make a difference in terms of keeping off the pounds!

The shit these exploiters pull has to die. We have to end this practice. It's ridiculous.