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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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fivea wrote: post #60
hogrider wrote: post #58

Is it really ao hard so believe non skilled jobs have it this hard? Retail sucks, most service jobs suck and exploit workers. They found class consciousness through anger.

> Is it really ao hard so believe non skilled jobs have it this hard? What makes this gaslighting attempts so mind-numbingly pathetic is the fact that even some FANGs, which are supposedly references in terms of high-quality, highly-paid work, are renowned for their poor working conditions and hiring processes. And they have been known for that for around a decade, now. If this is an expected occurrence in high-quali…

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by hirvi74 »

Kavelach wrote: post #131
roxaaaane wrote: post #123

What's with the hostility towards the subreddit? I am surprised by the HN reaction to it. I think that unless you are working minimum wage you don't get to call the sub "nihilistic, apathetic or zoomer adhd" if anything most of the members were essential workers during covid and struggle to afford basic living otherwise they would not be angry. I am very surprised by the comments in the thread to be honest, if you wo…

I wholeheartedly agree with you. The importance of those people has been proven when, during the first waves of COVID, they stopped being called low wage workers , and instead words like essential workers were used much more often. I worked as an essential worker when I was in high-school, and the amount of shit I had to put up was insane. Your boss is screwing you over, one way or another, the people you service dem…

Essential enough to work during a pandemic, but inessential enough to be given health care to survive the pandemic. How fucking disgusting.

I try to advocate for pacifism as much as possible, but it's miracle and a blessing more acts of domestic terrorism/conflict aren't committed, and I wouldn't be surprised if starting see more (in the US). I strongly believe Covid is nothing more than a "Test" -- not by some divine entity, but if we, as humanity, do not take climate change more seriously, then we haven't seen shit yet.

We'll have even more displaced, disgruntled, and broken people.

People can only take so much before they break e.g. 1917 Russia

Like Voltaire said, "When the poor have nothing left to eat, then they will eat the rich."

I hope all these selfish "knowledge" workers can disassemble, clean, and reassemble an AR-15 because if shit hits the fan, knowing the ins and outs of dependency injection in next month's Bullshit.js and your salary + total compensation won't save you.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by Jcowell »

omilu wrote: post #158
PickledHotdog wrote: post #151

I'd be interested to hear the ages of people belittling /r/antiwork It seems to me that many are blind to the fact that there's generations of people coming through who are getting dudded on the "work hard and you'll at least be comfortable" agreement of previous generations. Instead they're learning that they'll work hard and that's all they'll do until they die. Wage stagnation, sky-rocketing cost of living, deteri…

People focus on the negatives in life and ignore all the positives: nearly free access to all the worlds information, infinite media and entertainment, no world wars, medicine, and on and on.... Everyone on earth is better off today then 50 years ago. Its human nature to complain. We shouldn't crap on the previous generation they did extremely good for human kind. The folks on antiwork are good for nothing except com…

Hard to enjoy the good in life where one accident can leave it in a mountain of debt forever.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by Apocryphon »

mgh2 wrote: post #180
gremlinsinc wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People wanting to "abolish work" may rather leech on society, it is a consequence of social media brainwashing: gambling, crypto, FIRE, 4hww, etc. These concepts have wide scale, harmful implications for the future of humanity Leech on society... I think you've got this backwards. The "leech on society" is all rent-seekers. Maybe we should ban landlords, seems they're pretty leechy by just holding onto a residence…

Blame boomers, for you will become like them: grow or die. This is the harsh reality. Should a doctor or nurse be paid as a restaurant or retail worker? Who is the "essential" worker? Look at the market, tech is becoming more essential, not services. If you don't upgrade your skills and stay stagnant, you will be decimated. If you are young, you can still learn and adapt, change careers and industries. You cannot aff…

And many have indeed adapted, by becoming rent-seekers or engaging in hustles to try to optimize over the rat race- hence the types of behaviors you denounce.

The market is far too irrational and complex to assign essentiality based on salaries or valuations.

You seem to be bringing up the hoary "learn to code" lesson, but plenty of people trying to make money in crypto or achieve FIRE are former coders themselves. In their view, they upgraded their skills.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by oceanghost »

Apocryphon wrote: post #124
imtringued wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CEO isn't to blame either. He has to make his investors happy. This is because there are investment opportunities based on rent seeking that have an artificially high return on investment. The CEO must beat those unsustainable returns.

Agent: I can't help that. All I know is, I got my orders. They told me to tell you to get off, and that's what I'm tellin' ya. Muley: You mean get off of my own land? Agent: Now don't go to blamin' me! It ain't my fault. Muley's son: Who's fault is it? Agent: You know who owns the land. The Shawnee Land and Cattle Company. Muley: And who's the Shawnee Land and Cattle Company? Agent: It ain't nobody. It's a company. M…

Truly prophetic. Haven't thought about that in a while. Thank you!

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by scollet »

dang wrote: post #169
scollet wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fuck you.

Hey, can you please not break the site guidelines like this? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Sorry Dan.

Heated emotions. I'll keep it civil and thanks for your work.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

scollet wrote: post #186
dang wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, can you please not break the site guidelines like this? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Sorry Dan. Heated emotions. I'll keep it civil and thanks for your work.

Appreciated!

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by JacobThreeThree »

hirvi74 wrote: post #182
Kavelach wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. The importance of those people has been proven when, during the first waves of COVID, they stopped being called low wage workers , and instead words like essential workers were used much more often. I worked as an essential worker when I was in high-school, and the amount of shit I had to put up was insane. Your boss is screwing you over, one way or another, the people you service dem…

Essential enough to work during a pandemic, but inessential enough to be given health care to survive the pandemic. How fucking disgusting. I try to advocate for pacifism as much as possible, but it's miracle and a blessing more acts of domestic terrorism/conflict aren't committed, and I wouldn't be surprised if starting see more (in the US). I strongly believe Covid is nothing more than a "Test" -- not by some divin…

>I try to advocate for pacifism as much as possible, but it's miracle and a blessing more acts of domestic terrorism/conflict aren't committed

>if we, as humanity, do not take climate change more seriously, then we haven't seen shit yet.

Are you advocating for domestic terrorism in the name of climate change?

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