“Anti-Work:” This Facebook Group Is Throwing Punches At Late Stage Capitalism, And Here Are 30 Of Its Best Posts
The subreddit r/Antiwork has gathered a lot of support over the last year, especially since the beginning of the Great Resignation. And even though not all of the attention was positive, the buzz has certainly helped to spread its message, and even take the movement to other platforms.
There's a Facebook group called Anti-Work. It's not connected to the subreddit, but shares a lot of the same values. The group's 'About' section says it welcomes "all things related to anti-work and late stage capitalism", and you can definitely see a wide variety of topics in its posts.
From specific things like burnout and student debt to broader discussions on salaries and personal finance, continue scrolling to check out the most popular ones.
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If A Grain Of Rice Was Worth $100,000 Jeff Bezos Would Have Over 60 Pounds, Every One Else- Less Than 1/2 Grain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOVBiEotaw
I've seen this, it really puts it into perspective.
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This should be on the front of every School textbook. The USA and to a lesser degree the UK have had a 40 year assault on the middle classes by the wealthy.
"Buy A House"? $24 Not Enough For A Studio Apartment
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the mods may speak as they like, but the membership of r/antiwork thinks the anti-work philosophy is utopian b******t and a distraction from the rights and dignity of people who HAVE to work.
I've gone heretic to free markets on the one issue of minimum wage, meaning I support a huge minimum wage. See, the idea of a free-market wage is that people won't work for less than they can live on. You can't undercut someone's wages if you can't afford to live on that wage either. So you both refuse to work (i.e., strike) and the company must raise wages. The problem is that with imported, cheap labor and government assistance, that never really happens: people work for unreasonably low wages, and the government, by subsidizing the poor laborer, indirectly subsidizes the unjust employer. Taxpayers need to say, "Nope! You need to way your workers enough so that they don't qualify for welfare."
But in all honesty, minimum wage would be $10, not $17. You know what? I think it should be higher anyway. If a business can't stay open at $15 an hour, why should taxpayers subsidize it? But then enough of this b******t of letting businesses hire illegal immigrants off the books. If you're going to have a minimum wage, by God, you'd better enforce it!
Load More Replies... They are cherry-picking statistics. If we used the minimum wage from when it was first created by President Roosevelt in 1938 (which is 25 cents), it would only be 4-5 dollars today. The minimum wage has more than kept up with inflation.
Profit is what companies make when they pay workers less than the value of their labor.
Marxian theory of value? Kudos on getting your education...such a shame it ended in the 1800s. The Marxian rhetoric has been disproven multiple times.
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Fix the money, fix the problem. If the US was still on a precious metal standard, it wouldn't be an issue. Also, taxation is theft. Including all the ones you don't even know you're paying.
You're arguing a point against people who want socialism. They will cherry pick statistics that say socialism works when countries like Venezuela say otherwise. They will also say people like bezos and musk should pay more taxes(like socialism) when the top 1% pay 60% of taxes in this country. The top .01% pay 40% of taxes in this country. There should be a major tax overhaul and close all of the tax loopholes and streamline the tax system. When your income is taxed, then you go purchase goods and get taxed, take them to your home(that gets taxed) with your car(that gets taxed) that you have to fill up with gas that gets taxed, somethings gotta give. Our founding fathers shouted, "no taxation without representation" when this country was born and are turning over in their graves because of the corrupt government systems in place.
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To learn more about the group, we contacted its administrators and moderators and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us.
"Fundamentally, the idea of Anti-Work is that people should choose to be productive on their own terms, not as a result of coercion or having their stability threatened," the team told Bored Panda.
"The underlying message of the Anti-Work philosophy is that the connection between survival and employment status or productivity levels must be eliminated."
"Our Facebook group is not affiliated with r/AntiWork," the people behind the group said.
While the subreddit is quite old (it was created in 2013), its Facebook spin-off is still fresh — it came about in October 2021 "as a result of needing to create a digital community tailored specifically for Facebook users."
"In our group, we have people from all backgrounds," the admins and mods said. "Writers, frontline nurses, school teachers, line cooks, truck drivers, forklift operators. To name just a few."
However, they pointed out that the Anti-Work group is explicitly anti-capitalist and supports the creation and expansion of unions and worker cooperatives, as well as believes in the need for workplace democracy.
“As a society, we have the ability to provide for humanity's needs, to give people a base layer of support and stability to encourage productivity without coercion," Maxwell Neely, the Anti-Work group admin and mod team's designated Press Liaison said.
This is the answer to employers that claim they "care about the employees mental health." They don't realize that crappy working conditions are part of the problem...or more likely they do and just don't give a flock.
The group is trying its best to remain civil. It condemns all discriminatory language and actions towards other people, including but not limited to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, and ableism. Basically, if you want to shout at someone and insult them for disagreeing with you, this is not a place to do so.
However, as can be expected, sometimes trolls join to derail discussions, insult members, and generally be unpleasant. This forces the admin team to take action, but they say that most of the group members are "awesome people with valuable insights, and stories worth telling."
According to the admin and mod team, they aim to create a platform of inclusion and empowerment, and then pass the mic, so group members can tell their own stories in a supportive environment.
With nearly 25,000 members, they have a lot to manage. The group rules are designed to promote an environment of psychological safety, and are pretty similar to those of other mindful Facebook communities. "When in doubt, just remember, don't be a jerk," the folks concluded.
"Exit interview" my @rse. If I'm fired, I'm outta here. Please feel free to proceed without me.
Communities like this one seem like a natural response to the latest developments in the job market. Two years into the pandemic, people across the globe are tired. Poor mental health and burnout are common, particularly among low-wage and essential workers.
This prolonged period of uncertainty has made many re-analyze the role their employers play in making matters worse; record numbers of workers are leaving jobs in search of better options.
If that's how companies view their employees in the US, I think you guys need to remind these "bosses" about the reason behind your civil war and why your country fought the English for independence.
Too many people still feel that self-sacrifice is admirable or honourable. It's not, it's traumatizing and destructive.
'Unskilled jobs' (i.e. jobs that require no prior education) are still jobs that need to be done. Just because it doesn't require an education of four years to work at a waste company doesn't mean it's not REALLY important work.
“With Covid, there was an interruption of work as we knew it," Tom Juravitch, a professor of labor studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US, told BBC.
"In moments like this, people have time to reflect. Working has been degraded for so many people. The authority structures that we’re in have gotten more draconian and more controlling than ever. People really felt that in a new way.”
They don't want you to discuss your wage... because they don't want you to find out you actually deserve more.
Fundamentally changing the way employers think sounds unlikely, but we are experiencing an unprecedented shake-up in terms of how workers do their jobs and the kinds of conditions they are expecting in return.
It's obvious that many people are at their breaking points, and there are already signs that companies who fear widescale quits are starting to respond with improvements. But if groups like Anti-Work continue to gain numbers, who's to say they can't take us even further?
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The Simpsons analogy about Homer being able to buy a home on one salary, shows the low information, false deductions people make to push their agenda. Homer got the money from his father Abe to buy the house, by having his father sell his home. Then Abe was going to move in with them, but after a while was put into a nursing/assisted living home. THAT IS HOW HOMER AFFORDED HIS HOUSE
Yeah and no one in 1992 thought a one-income household was normal. Everyone knew that ended with the recession in the late '70's, followed by the Republicans' relentless campaign against the poor and middle class, which continues to this day.
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It’s good to see that people are questioning the pro-capitalist propaganda that everyone is brainwashed into worshipping.
My husband earns what should be decent money, but cost of living near his job is crushing is.
it should be pointed out that the subreddit r/antiwork is NOT generally supportive of the anti-work philosophy or related ideas such as basic income. whatever the mods believe, they are free to believe, but the membership is focused on people who have to work and want to work, and on exposing the injustices and hardships they put up with in today's workplace.
ive got a juicy screenshot of an antiwork facebook admin telling a co-op person offering resources to eff off
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I grew up poor, worked full time at Walmart while going to college full time surviving on ramen and sandwiches. Joined the Navy, got out and eventually worked my way up into a six figure career in the oil industry. There's always a way to be successful. Talk to a career counselor. Half the battle is just living where there's opportunities.
Irony is when this capitalistic system is what allows a company like Bored Panda to exist in a global market and why these people can criticize the very thing that enables them to speak freely
ive got a screenshot of an antiwork facebook admin telling a co-op developer offering free resources down in a not nice way at all😂
Load More Replies... You're an idiot Ryan. The kind of fool that dictators love. The useful idiot.
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I can't imagine thinking it is either American capitalism or North Korea with nothing in between and expecting to be taken seriously.
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The Simpsons analogy about Homer being able to buy a home on one salary, shows the low information, false deductions people make to push their agenda. Homer got the money from his father Abe to buy the house, by having his father sell his home. Then Abe was going to move in with them, but after a while was put into a nursing/assisted living home. THAT IS HOW HOMER AFFORDED HIS HOUSE
Yeah and no one in 1992 thought a one-income household was normal. Everyone knew that ended with the recession in the late '70's, followed by the Republicans' relentless campaign against the poor and middle class, which continues to this day.
Load More Replies... It’s good to see that people are questioning the pro-capitalist propaganda that everyone is brainwashed into worshipping.
My husband earns what should be decent money, but cost of living near his job is crushing is.
it should be pointed out that the subreddit r/antiwork is NOT generally supportive of the anti-work philosophy or related ideas such as basic income. whatever the mods believe, they are free to believe, but the membership is focused on people who have to work and want to work, and on exposing the injustices and hardships they put up with in today's workplace.
ive got a juicy screenshot of an antiwork facebook admin telling a co-op person offering resources to eff off
Load More Replies... I grew up poor, worked full time at Walmart while going to college full time surviving on ramen and sandwiches. Joined the Navy, got out and eventually worked my way up into a six figure career in the oil industry. There's always a way to be successful. Talk to a career counselor. Half the battle is just living where there's opportunities.
Irony is when this capitalistic system is what allows a company like Bored Panda to exist in a global market and why these people can criticize the very thing that enables them to speak freely
ive got a screenshot of an antiwork facebook admin telling a co-op developer offering free resources down in a not nice way at all😂
Load More Replies... You're an idiot Ryan. The kind of fool that dictators love. The useful idiot.
Load More Replies... I can't imagine thinking it is either American capitalism or North Korea with nothing in between and expecting to be taken seriously.
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