Antiwork

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Date Created: June 21, 2023

This community supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives. Members of this community 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/or want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

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Essential Reads

Start here! Some of the more 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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We are at a point wherein the system can not repair itself and if things progress further in the proceeding 4 years what little we have been holding on to shall be reduced to nothing (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/antiwork

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Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President of the United States, Donald J Trump, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

Dnc leadership sabotaged sanders. In some iowa districts they declared clinton the caucus winner even though sanders supporters outnumbered clinton supporters 2 to 1.

The idea that democracy is still functioning and votes are being fairly counted in the day and age of technocracy is just super delulu. There are 14 traits of fascism and 13 of 14 are blatantly evident to varying degrees regardless of which party sits in the white house. The 14th is the only one we can say is plausibly deniable and it is fraudulent elections.

In Germany electronic voting was deemed unconstitutional by their version of the supreme court because with electronic voting it is impossible to differentiate between legitimate and fraudulent results for anyone without expert training in programing and IT.

But go ahead and keep believing that our elections have integrity while living in a society where money controls everything, where supreme court justices can take bribes and say they are just gifts, trust me bro. Where 6 major corporations all circularly owned by black rock, state street and vanguard own 90% of the available media. Y’all are delusional. If there was legitimate proof that our election process has been rigged since the 80’s you all would still keep on the delulu idea that ballot box initiated progress was still possible.

At what point will Neo liberals admit they were wrong and that revolution is the only option considering things will only get worse from here and the party you all were hoping to affect change is obviously compromised by corporate money? Because it sounds like never. Sounds like you are so enamored with the concept of order and bureaucracy that you wont allow any other avenues for change to be considered.