/R/Antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification
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There is a whole lot to say about labour in general (it's actually a fully fledged discipline of study) and the social and economic mechanics that underpin it, let alone the rich philosophical details regarding why and how it takes place in the modern society; these were almost entirely ignored in the article, failing thus to provide a genuinely useful explanation of the context that shaped this situation and its implications, as well as the larger phenomenon that ignited the recent events.
For example, branding the discussions and ideas that birthed the channel in the first place as "extreme, often insane" indicates that the was indeed some degree of research that helped shape the author's conclusions and their understanding of the above, but far from sufficient in my view. I am, of course, not ruling out the fact that maybe it is I who has failed to understand their conclusions.
They literally wanted to abolish work. It would not really be valuable to go and dig up an old reddit post to confirm this sentiment was present in the community, there are thousands of them.
Nobody has the humility to look like a loser, and would rather work a bad job instead.