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Antiwork

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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Next year management will act surprised why readership has dropped so much. Will blame the SEO team and replace them all with AI as well. The year after...

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

And they'll blame the writers who they fired the teams for and replaced with AI.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wish we knew which company fired 60 people for bots.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe there's not one person in those 60 who didn't spill the beans. Even just one anonymous Glassdoor review.

My rage bait sense is tingling...

Knowing Glassdoor, they probably took it down. They're like Yelp now where they hassle companies for money to hide reviews.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah the guy spoke to the bbc so maybe a British company?

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

"Welcome, my son, to the machine."