The Real Point of Reddit’s Antiwork Sub

It really saddens me that so many people are getting let down by their jobs like this. It must take a huge amount of provocation to make reasonable people quit on the spot. Many of these people presumably depend on their salary to survive, and they're still pushed to breaking point.

The examples included in the article are just egregious: forcing someone to come to work who has just lost their parent in a car accident, threatening a worker with firing for sitting on the job.

I'd like to think there's a move towards management respecting and appreciating their staff more, but I fear that's only happening in tech (and even then it's still very dependent on the management team).

While these people are extremely uninformed and their "solutions" would be absolutely catastrophic, they do have a point.

What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused by government regulation/meddling, often as a result of lobbying.

I'm talking about chemical patents and "safety regulations" making it practically impossible to compete with big pharma, making medicine extremely overpriced. Or government bailouts of banks which are long beyond bankruptcy causing all sorts of mishaps.

The only solution is a return to true capitalism. Career-politicians are just as guilty as (if not more than) the big corporations.