touch foxglove NOW Every social movement is comprised of two elements: the aspiration (what you want from the world) and the construction (how society must be structured in order for everyone to have the capability to have the aspiration). For instance, in the American revolution, the aspiration was freedom, and the construction was the Constitution.
r/antiwork was originally a subreddit of people that just had the aspiration of not working. As it got larger, and zoomers joined, there was pressure to make it into a social movement. The problem is that no one could create a construction that would attain the goal of "nobody works", so Marxism took over. The problem is that Marxism is a very pro-work ideology.
The problem is that to be alive requires effort. Even when not moving, your body is metabolizing, your heart is pumping, your lungs are breathing. All of this requires energy. The only human that does not constantly expend energy is a dead one. Therefore, if one person is lazy, they must exist as parasites on the non-lazy. (This is the antiwork aspiration). But if everyone is lazy, where does the food come from?
r/antiwork would be better off if it stopped trying to be a social movement and simply adgknowledged what we all already know: work sucks.
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The Idealised goal of Marxism is about restructuring work so that everyone works an equal amount for an equal amount of the benefit. Most people will gain net time off through more efficient distribution of labor but they'll still have to do their shift.
What these guys want is a UBI system where work is optional if you want more than basic subsistence or some sort of automated Wall-e post work robo terrarium.
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We're already in a post-work UBI paradise -- by 19th Century standards of living, when most Americans didn't have running water or electricity. The problem is that "basic subsistence" is inflationary.
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We've always lived in the tyranny of the masses and robotization is our only hope of throwing off that yoke.
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Robotization will not end work any more than the power loom, steam engine, or personal computer. When goods get cheaper, people don't work less but buy more.
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Advanced robotization hopefully reduces the need for human oversight to the robots' owner + their lieutenant so that humanity's productivity no longer lingers on wrangling billions of r-slurs.
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The bottleneck is not supply but demand. No matter how much we improve productivity, consumers consoom more to compensate
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Oh, I was talking social stuff, not economy.
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I would gladly give up the internet to go live by myself in a cabin in Montana. Live life as God intended. Maybe write some books or papers.
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