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0 pointswarent4y ago0 comments

Yes. Admittedly on the one hand what I see a lot is people embracing victimhood, relieving themselves or responsibility and self empowerment. That's the only aspect of anti-work that I don't like. Otherwise I think their message is very fair and very clear: raise wages to keep up with inflation, and treat workers humanely so people stop dropping dead of heart attacks on the job.

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zanny4y ago

It feels like newfound indignity and the realization is that most of us are actually victims - capitalist exploitation of the working class is codified into the societies we live in, it just took people taking a break from the grind, a step back to see what they were subjected to, to realize what the exploitation is and what it feels like.

Its not popular on HN but most of the libertarian tenants that belay picking yourself up by your bootstraps are not applicable to a supermajority of labor. There is no change of attitude within the framing of the economic system as it exists that individual actors take on a collective scale to suddenly stop being exploited systemically.

leadingthenet4y ago

> raise wages to keep up with inflation, and treat workers humanely so people stop dropping dead of heart attacks on the job.

...so continue working aka the exact opposite of what anti-work seems to imply. Gotcha.

Another term got co-opted for political purposes, wonderful. Nonsense that once again originates in the US, which will inevitably land on our shores in no time.

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