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professor-doc-emeritus · 2 months ago

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I know this one guy who enjoys doing this singular menial labor task when they can set their own hours, only work to their personal standard, focus only on the aspects of the work they personally find fulfilling, only do the work either by themselves or exclusively with their close personal friends, only share the benefits of that work with either themselves or the people they personally care about, and quit whenever they stop enjoying it. This means that if we get rid of capitalism everyone would just sorta be cool about it and work the lithium mines.

#just summarized this hour and a half anti-work video essay i almost got sucked into for you you're welcome #also feel the need to clarify this isn't about the election this is just me being parasocial and sub-tweeting a 5k andy youtuber #their big end point was well i do work to care for people i love what if we got rid of work and just did things for people we love #and extended the definition of 'people we love' to the entire-wire-world #and its like lady i hate to break it to you #but anyone who would say that has never had to participate in or witness the soul-crushing work of having to care for a loved one #if you think the guilt of being kinda shit at your make-work corporate daycare job is bad #wait until you have to choose between a mental breakdown and your dementia-riddled mother eating tonight #and also #at a certain point a civilization needs a means of compelling people to do work they don't want to do #historically that means was widespread and brutal violence #the miracle of capitalism is that now we use money instead #put another way #you can find guys out there who genuinely like working waste management #there's not enough of them to deal with everybody's shit #idk i understand the complaints of the anti work crowd its just that their solutions are so fucking stupid

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