Antiwork
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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This server is no longer working, and we had to move.
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Date Created: June 21, 2023
Library copied from reddit:
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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No, no, no, no. No. This is libertarian bullshit. Laws and regulations ideally force a fair playing field, and ensure consumer safety. Take away regulation, and "whoever is most unethical" scoops up mad profits until and if consumers catch on to the scam.
But even regulation can't make a fair playing field when the market is dominated by megacorporations who have the economic power to prevent any new competition from challenging them, unless that new competition already has huge economic power itself.
The problem isn't the lack of competition. The problem is capitalism.
Read the article again. The author was pointing out intellectual property allows corporations to extract monopoly rent from society.
These laws like patents, trademarks, and copyrights have allowed big business to dominate our economic system.
Worse than this they use intellectual property to lockup and control our very culture that they have created through exploiting workers.
It is an extreme imbalance and perversion of the way science and arts have existed for thousands of years.
The article advocate for a libertarian world. Getting rid of parents and copyright is good, imagining that competition will bring a better world is plain stupid though. It is precisely the libertarian ideal. And it only lead to neo-feudalism.
I don't think they read it even the first time around.
Is it possible they imply the WRONG laws and regulations are being made? We obviously still need law but when these rules make it impossible to stop monopolistic behavior, they need to be changed. Laws and regulations can instead be used to encourage competition and smaller businesses. Personally, I believe it should be much harder to maintain a huge corporation than a smaller company.
Yes. Nobody is saying that there should be no laws and regulations (not even the libertarians). What I am saying is that the current laws enable the rich to create and maintain monopolies and line their pockets at the expense of everyone else.
I’m not putting words in anyone’s mouth.
It isn't bullshit, but there's a lot of nuance missing. Majority of the economy works efficiently (aka low margins) based on this principle, but there are corner cases - particularly services with strong network effects that cause single provider to dominate the market