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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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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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Because they've spent a century brainwashing a majority of the workforce into believing unions are evil communist cults designed to teach people to eat babies.
Don't let rhetoric in communities like this fool you into thinking most people want to rise up against their oppressors. Theres a reason Republicans have as much support as they do.
They do, they call it “The Event”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
Every last one of these people has a name and an address. They’d rather us fight each other while their collared armed guards protect their bunkers than us fix the world. They want fascism so they can plunder a bit more before they go into their bunker. 7 billion human bodies don’t contain enough blood to sate their hunger.
I think the solution to this is to make them think we are in The Event. Drive these fools to their bunkers, sent in their shock collared Marines to protect them not from us but protect us from them.
They want so badly to insulate themselves from us but the best way we can protect humanity from harm is to take the billionaires off the table and shove them into their own self imposed survival shelters.
How much better would the world be if the top .1 percent thought they were about to lose their heads to the angry mob so they remove themselves and we all move on with an economy with that group not in the economy.
We’ll need to seal their bunkers shut once they’re in. They seem the type to not bring an arc welder
They’ll keep the culture war going
Because they all believe they can hold that off for the next generation to deal with. They don't think it'll happen now.
I think general strikes like those seen in 1919 might come first.