Unable to ever be reasonable, they swap one kind of delusion for another.
r/antiwork - Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.
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We're mostly back to 100%. Expect more disruptions that will cause sister service outages for the forseeable future.
MrAnnoyingDude
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I doubt that their ideology will spread a lot...
Gingervitis
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I get people being incredibly lazy because I am, but it should be a crime to be this stupid and entitled. People have to work. It's literally impossible for any society to function without someone going out and getting shit done. Someone has to make the stuff you want, it's not just gonna fall from the sky.
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Lol just automate, it's easy, I automated every single renevable item on Minecraft.
Wikipedia Scholar
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I give them credit for having the sheer gonads to openly proclaim themselves as NEET, in a culture that still emphasizes work ethic.
this reminds me of a culture I read about in Ancient Greek myths, the Lotus Eaters. they were a tribe who lived on a tropical island, and just relaxed and got high all day (some scholars believe the 'lotus' was a reference to the opium poppy). the Greeks who encountered them were tempted by the lifestyle, and had to pull themselves away from it. as pleasant as it might be to let time pass in leisure, nothing gets done that way. the Lotus Eaters didn't build, write, create, or discover. the only reason they have a legacy at all is because the Greeks wrote about them, otherwise they'd be forgotten.
I think modern life enables the NEET lifestyle. of course, there are a number of factors: economy, virus, mental health, etc. but simply put, it's easier than ever to indulge in escapism. You can live fairly comfortably for years as a shut-in, with the internet as a 24/7 source of stimulation. while leisure has its benefits, ultimately doing creative/productive things with your life is far more rewarding. for example, I've done nerdy things for my favorite hobby , vidya, such as documenting/mapping stuff, writing up content in wikis, etc. it's not much, but it's something of value that exists, and without me it wouldn't.
and of course, society needs work in order to function. whether it's a proper job with a W4, or doing useful tasks, work will exist in some capacity. even if we built machines to do everything for us, someone would still have to maintain those machines. and getting too dependent on automation comes with its own dangers, the background of the Dune novels really gets into this with the Butlerian Jihad.
overall, while there are things to criticize about work culture and socio-economic structures, many NEETs fall into a trap of entitlement, gibs, and a delusional understanding of how societies function.
this reminds me of a culture I read about in Ancient Greek myths, the Lotus Eaters. they were a tribe who lived on a tropical island, and just relaxed and got high all day (some scholars believe the 'lotus' was a reference to the opium poppy). the Greeks who encountered them were tempted by the lifestyle, and had to pull themselves away from it. as pleasant as it might be to let time pass in leisure, nothing gets done that way. the Lotus Eaters didn't build, write, create, or discover. the only reason they have a legacy at all is because the Greeks wrote about them, otherwise they'd be forgotten.
I think modern life enables the NEET lifestyle. of course, there are a number of factors: economy, virus, mental health, etc. but simply put, it's easier than ever to indulge in escapism. You can live fairly comfortably for years as a shut-in, with the internet as a 24/7 source of stimulation. while leisure has its benefits, ultimately doing creative/productive things with your life is far more rewarding. for example, I've done nerdy things for my favorite hobby , vidya, such as documenting/mapping stuff, writing up content in wikis, etc. it's not much, but it's something of value that exists, and without me it wouldn't.
and of course, society needs work in order to function. whether it's a proper job with a W4, or doing useful tasks, work will exist in some capacity. even if we built machines to do everything for us, someone would still have to maintain those machines. and getting too dependent on automation comes with its own dangers, the background of the Dune novels really gets into this with the Butlerian Jihad.
overall, while there are things to criticize about work culture and socio-economic structures, many NEETs fall into a trap of entitlement, gibs, and a delusional understanding of how societies function.
MrAnnoyingDude
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Seems like antiwork is spilling out to Facebook - here are some responses to a comment complaining about how the OP's grandson keeps mooching off his parents.
I hate Baby Boomers with a passion but this kind of scapegoating is just pathetic. They might've pulled the ladder up behind them as a generation, but that isn't cause to completely give up.
Of course these retards also buy into the climate doom by X year in the near future shit as well. "Why bother working if we're all gonna die??!?!?!?" Can't help but feel like that's the plan with this narrative, completely decimate western work forces.
The mindset behind that reminds me of this song.
Altzek
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It's depressing. There are people who are struggling to find stable employment (see: me) who would give everything for a stable job and to not feel like useless leeches on their parents, and then there's these people.
Politically I'm not even that distant from them and theoretically they come from the area that values productive people as the future of this world, so I don't know what went wrong.
Politically I'm not even that distant from them and theoretically they come from the area that values productive people as the future of this world, so I don't know what went wrong.
I love that you think Amazon and other corporate class people investing in climate change mitigation are in a conspiracy to destroy their own workforce for...some reason. They want people to work for them for long hours with little pay, no one is actually trying to collapse society except accelerationist edge lords.
I did think it was funny that Amazon didn't want mail in ballots for its union votes, though.
The Communists (proper Marxist-Leninists not mentally ill BLM supporters on social media) liked the biblically derived slogan: 'he who does not work, then neither shall be eat.'im willing to bet a large number of them have never worked a full day in their lives and just can't be bothered
but funny to think some of these guys think communism will mean they won't have to work
at least with a capitalistic society you get to choose your work instead of being possibly assigned some kind of state mandated manual labour
Servant robots need technicians to maintain them.
Several concentric circle jerks of uselessness.
Passengers.
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The fact modern communists are so detached from the ideas of Lenin (however foolish those ideas were) is why they never get anywhere. Can't mobilise the workers when you don't work.
Altzek
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More like "can't mobilize the workers when your entire political program revolves around the legitimization of harmful freak lifestyles", with the occasional foreign policy take that might or might not be wrong, it's usually like a coin flip.
They stopped caring about the productive people some time ago, now their vanguard are all kinds of degenerates, who also happen to be the clergy of post-modern capitalist society and just shows how colluded with power 99.9% of them are, whether they're aware of it or not.
Maybe I'm playing their game when I shouldn't, but maybe at this point it's more revolutionary to bully a troon to death than to have a picket in front of a factory to prevent layoffs. Not that the latter isn't desirable, of course.
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So what is this magical system they want that will just hook everyone up with basic needs with no strings attached? Pretty sure that's never existed.
They hated him because he told the truth
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