Lately, I've seen an uptick in cross posts from the anti-work sub, and sentiments in the comments saying stuff like that's lazy, or that they don't get how people can be anti work.
The misunderstanding here isn't that most people are "anti-doing labor", but "anti-work within the current framework it exists". I would call myself anti-work. Now here's what that means:
It means I don't want to have to commit 40 hours of my week working for somebody else, making somebody else profits. It means I don't wanna do busy work that serves no great purpose. It means I don't wanna live for the weekends or the few hours of the day after work and after cooking, cleaning, blah blah blah. It means I want to do labor that I'm passionate about.
Here's what anti work doesn't mean:
It doesn't mean being lazy, wanting to sit around and do nothing and just be hedonistic. (OK, for some people it might mean that, and honestly, more power to them)
Now sure, if you have a job you like and you're happy with your current framework, cool, this doesn't apply to you then. But for me, and so many other people, the feelings of alienation grow ever stronger. I don't want to be punching numbers in a computer all day. I want to work with my hands, to build useful things, I want to grow food and share it with friends and family and the community. THIS is the labor that I and many more enjoy.
tl;dr: being anti work isn't about being lazy and not wanting to work, it's about not wanting to work within the current framework of employment
Submitted September 05, 2020 at 07:51PM by Etiam_vitae https://ift.tt/2F9LwMp
