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What do you do with the other 14?

Curious about the opinion of anti-work as I get more into this subreddit. Most people spend ~10 hours a day sleeping, eating, showering, etc. If nobody was to work what would you do with the other 14 hours x 365 days x ~30-50 years of your life? That’s like 200 000+ hours btw. What would you do with that? And if you say whatever form of recreation, how would that work? How could everyone just spend all that time doing nothing? What solution, in your opinion, is the ideal of anti-work based on? And yeah I get it. This subreddit champions leaving toxic workplaces, prompting the shut down of shit company cultures, discusses the shitshow of economic inequality and exploitive business practices. I agree those are all problems but that is a whole other issue entirely. And not what I am talking about. What I mean to say is how…


Curious about the opinion of anti-work as I get more into this subreddit. Most people spend ~10 hours a day sleeping, eating, showering, etc. If nobody was to work what would you do with the other 14 hours x 365 days x ~30-50 years of your life?

That’s like 200 000+ hours btw. What would you do with that? And if you say whatever form of recreation, how would that work? How could everyone just spend all that time doing nothing? What solution, in your opinion, is the ideal of anti-work based on?

And yeah I get it. This subreddit champions leaving toxic workplaces, prompting the shut down of shit company cultures, discusses the shitshow of economic inequality and exploitive business practices. I agree those are all problems but that is a whole other issue entirely. And not what I am talking about. What I mean to say is how is it possible for the ideals of this subreddit to coexist with a functioning modern society? Or is the dream intention of the subreddit to bring about a second age of bartering and subsistent farming?

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