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Comment by Zircom | Hacker News Reader

To be fair /r/antiwork USED to be actually be about not working and discussions on how that might be accomplished(ex UBI or government works programs). But as it got more popular it quickly turned into what it is today, which is mostly fake screenshots of people telling their bosses off.

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I was a long time reader of antiwork because of the former, and ended up leaving because of the latter. These days it’s absolutely reeking with stupendously bad takes about employment law and workers rights that in most cases aren’t actual laws and aren’t actual issues of “workers rights” just “shitty communication between functioning adults”.

But that’s a story as common as blue skies and chirping birds: once your favorite sub-Reddit gets big enough…it starts to stink.

once anything gets big, it starts to stink. Call me an elitist, but the average person has wretched taste.

"A person is smart, people are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals"

- An alien invasion movie

Not gonna say I subscribe in text, but in merit...I mean...

My take on /r/antiwork is that people not working is the end goal, which is the hope for a true futuristic utopia right? Obviously we can't reach that yet, so people compromise by wanting better working conditions in the meantime.

Kind of like how the people in the soviet union were working towards a true communist utopia?

Soviet Union was a brutal dictatorship with an elite class operating under the guise of communism. Same goes for any notions of it being socialist. Under no circumstance was the means of production owned by the workers in the USSR. Also most folks pushing for socialism are pushing for Social Democracy.

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