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[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago

It is unfortunate that this anti-work rhetoric often comes off as outrageous, when in reality it isn't. I don't know if the people doing it are intentionally trying to be controversial, or if they just are not good at communicating.

When we complain about work, this doesn't mean that we are asking for a world where we lounge all day at home, and expect that food, shelter and entertainment are magically delivered to us without any regard to how it happens. No, anti-work is not about a blind sense of entitlement. But that is how a lot of these posts come off as, even if their authors don't intend it.

Anti-work is a recognition that the working class works way too damn much; so much more than we need to to have a functioning society with everyone living happily and having their needs met. There's so much inefficiency in capitalism, with aims to drive more capital to the wealthy, and working around other stupidities of capitalism (check out the book "Bullshit jobs" for examples). The ruling class holds hostage the world's resources, and requires you to give them a large portion of your life to get even the minimum needed to sustain your living. Now that is outrageous.

[-] Gerula@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was born in a comunist society and can wholeheartedly tell you (I presume you are from US or a western country): you don't even know or can imagine what inefficient is :)

[-] bjfar@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Coming up with something even more inefficient isn't a win.

[-] worldsayshi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

But that's kind of the point here. There hasn't been any win. So far no proposed system has been able to beat capitalism in terms of efficiency. Right?

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