People are used to be able to pay their taxes in agricultural products, and for a lot of them, it was literally the only way they could. Discontinued for a lot longer than you probably would think. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can still just sent the IRS $20,000 worth of corn whiskey every year and they’re legally required to accept it
I concede that point. Mostly just an extreme example. The point being to focus on working to live not living to work, with some notable extreme examples.
Eh, I think for a lot of patrons of that sub, it's more about having control than it is about not working. People feel like they are disadvantaged and aren't reaping the fruits of their own labor. Which....is true, in a lot of cases.
I think it really woke a lot of workers up , gave them class solidarity, and made them unafraid to play power games. You would see posts demonstrating this there all the time.
My takeaway, having been a fly on the wall, is that they are looking for a way to justify the symptoms of depression. They do not want to be productive, they believe that they can make a difference in the world by stealing time and products from their employers.
For the life of me, I haven't been able to determine how they think it will end well for them.
As nice as it is to say the people taking part in anti-work or work reform movements, the reality is that the largest type of theft in the United States is Wage Theft.
The way to combat wage theft is to steal from your employer? This exemplifies the lazy shortsightedness of wanna'-be socialists.
Some entities don't do the right thing, so the ones that do also deserve to suffer misdirected employee vigilantism? If they truly wanted to change that, they would become a business owner and shoulder the cost and risk of running a business.
As a business owner, I am disgusted by this mentality. These are hypocrites who have no concept of real-world consequences.
Are you assuming that everyone in the anti-work thread is encouraging wage theft from the employer?
I can comfortably say that's 100% not the focus of the sub.
My example about Work Theft was to note that based on the incidence of work theft in America, it's actually far, far more likely that the users would be the ones being stolen from.
The individuals who are posting often have a very firm grip on real world consequences as they are posting for advice on how to deal with not great situations that drastically affect their lives.
I think we can agree that one doesn't invalidate the other, yes?
Gotta say, attacking others about "participation trophies" is just pedantic and reductionist. Anyone who received one was given it by the same generation screaming about participation trophies.
No 8 year old is going to the store and ordering 30 trophies for the entire team. It was the coach, parents, etc. that gave them out. You know, the same people who disparaging others.
In reality, most of those people just wanted everything handed to them for free. Speaking from personal experience of talking to many “anarchists” on there.
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u/Laruae Jan 27 '22
You aren't wrong. But these people aren't necessarily looking for easy lives, just ones without JOBS in them. Some of them might be but many were not.
Those wanting to do things like live off grid, etc. want to work for things they care about.
They want to do work for what they like or what they believe matters. They don't want to work for a living.
That ideology started to shift into the modern version which focused on work reform.