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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.

Anti-Work Library 📚

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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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You sound like a drunk person at a party arguing with the wall.

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[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Between us, I am the only attempting to provide a meaningful contribution.

If you have one of your own, please offer it. Otherwise, stop making noise.

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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Skill set should not be a qualifier for a living wage, period.

So, there's no reason to deny reality with regard to skill. It's not a constructive contribution. It's just noise, as you say.

Waxing on philosophic, while bending descriptions and definitions, in order to suit your ill-conceived concept of skill is unhelpful.

It removes the agency and accomplishments of workers. It is unneeded, insulting, and counterproductive.

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[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Workers' agency already has been removed.

Their accomplishments already are being plundered.

Otherwise, the discussion would not be occurring, and the conditions from which it emerged would be only fictional.

I am interested in criticizing the systems that have produced the disempowerment, and in building new systems that empower everyone.

You are interested on avoiding criticisms of the systems in which problems are occurring, denying the deeper structure of such systems, fatuously asserting their benevolence, and obstructing possibilities for transformation.

Your accusation about denying reality is dishonest.

You live beneath particular social systems sustained by ideals of a particular historic period, and refuse to see further, while deriding anyone even for trying.

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[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

You assume much and know very little. I'm not interested in your unfounded accusations and bad faith arguments. Goodbye.

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[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Irony.

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