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> should be provided by others who do.

No, I don't think this is accurate. They wanted to abolish work for everyone, not for a select few.

What would provide for people? It seems to me we would either all starve and die, AI would do it for us (impossible in its current state), or we rely on effectively slave labor of poorer countries (which would mean work is not abolished for everyone).

Here's Doreen's website. A lot of early posts on the sub were from here: https://abolishwork.com/about/

They use a specific definition of work, so they maybe aren't necessarily anti-work in the way you are thinking.

Thanks for the response. There are some interesting ideas on hat site. I guess this is another example of something discussed extensively in the rest of the thread, the name/slogan of the movement not using the conventional meaning of terms.

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