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Antiwork/Work Reform
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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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Date Created: June 15, 2023
Date Updated: July 17, 2023
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The Anti-Work Library 📚
Essential Reads
Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2013) | listen
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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The main rules of the server will be enforced stringently. https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/
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I think that I will maybe stay as a head mod just in case and will just respond to repots and such. But I don't see myself as a person capable of steering the community in the right direction because I don't have any deep knowledge about how society works. All I know is that the current society is not a good place for non-capitalists (people that don't own assets that generate money). I just want for the world to be a better place for everyone, this is why I created [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. I'm still going to actively work on the other 2 subs but [email protected] is something beyond my capabilities. I'm still very happy that I managed to create this community and kicksart it. If it goes actually mainstream I will even be in a postiton where I could brag that I'm the one that started it here. Something like that doesn't happen often haha.
But I'm totally going to still post there, even if I step down.
Here's a gold for your honesty 🏅
Definitely don't step down.
There's far too many stray voices trying to influence this kind of community - you only have to look at reddit's r/antiwork, where after one of their mods made a tit of themselves on Fox News, one of the users made r/workreform. r/workreform had 500,000 new users in a day, and then reddit admin forced the mod of that sub adopt their chosen powermods - they wouldn't let him hold votes to elect mods from within the community. Said powermods convinced the founding mod to give them full power, after which they kicked him out and told him r/workreform was "now part of [their] projects, we thought you understood that". He then went on to make r/workers_revolt but lost the all momentum he'd made with his sub.
Hold onto your community. It's yours. If someone else wants to make their own community to deliver their message, they should make their own community, not take over yours and leech all its subscribers.
I'd be happy to assist with some moderation if you want. Either with this account, or with my alts on other instances - in particular kbin replies here seem to be somewhat isolated from the true federated conversation.
Holy shit! I didn't know about all that stuff that happened to work reform. I think that it may be better for me to stay and watch over actions of mods who will be maintaining the community instead of throwing all that responsibility on the admins of the instance.
Yeah there was a sticky post detailing all of it on r/workers_revolt, but like I say it all got swept under the rug. Obviously, the creator/mod had some culpability, because they gave full admin to someone else, but still. Also, the new mods of r/workreform banned people for talking about it.
Edit: If you scroll down to the first posts on r/work_reform you can see some stuff about it, but most of the main posts and their allegations were removed.
I managed to ~~think~~ find this copy of a post that he made. I don't think that I should ask him to be a mod there. You mentioned that he later decided to create "workers revolt" so maybe he changes his mind, idk. The copy:
Tbh I could be wrong about him starting workers_revolt, however it certainly was the case that he was pushed out by admin in favour of powermods.
Did you see my other comment?
Yooo, do you think if I should appoint the creator of "work reform" and "workers revolt" as a mod of this community? I don't know if he's on this platform but from what I see the closed down their "workers revolt" sub because of reddit fuckups:
I don't know much about him though, is he a good enough person to contact him and ask him to be a mod there?