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

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

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That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

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

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Capital powers said the same thing about the Soviet Union during early days of the American labor movement. American workers are getting fucked over, it's an abomination and a disgrace, and people are rightly angry about it.

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

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I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...

I assume every story on Reddit is fiction, r/legaladvice and r/relationship_advice posts are as likely to be real in my estimation as r/nosleep (creepypasta) stories.

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

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You can say that about any popular sub, what would their motivation be? And is anything inauthentic about popular posts in that sub?

In theory, probably something like: (1) recruitment and growth of the sub either organically or inorganically (2) selective upvoting of particular perspectives if not direct posts (3) propagation and cross pollination of content across platforms e.g. Twitter + Reddit, etc.

But there's really no way to know, and the natural trend towards extreme opinions is inherent as is. The game would be to push perspectives towards more extreme views over a longer period of time.

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

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You can say that about any popular sub, what would their motivation be? And is anything inauthentic about popular posts in that sub?

> You can say that about any popular sub, what would their motivation be?

Social media has pretty much destroyed the fabric of western society, so theres that. I don't know that we need state actors to get involved in order for that to happen, it seems to work on it's own, but I can imagine if some actor was looking to create more tension and unrest, targeting and subtlety trolling large discussions would be pretty effective.

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

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Whilst I don't disagree on the point of r/antiwork being an echo chamber... ..."effective geo-lock" - Yeah good luck with that.

If there is truly such a thing like a troll campaign, no form of geo lock will ever stop them, but most certainly you will stop legitimate users instead.

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

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That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

Is more vacation time really radical? Don’t US workers have much less than other Western countries?

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

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Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

Whether or not you agree with the politics in question, it hardly seems surprising that a forum about bad working experiences and exploitation would respond positively to ideologies which profess to explain that abuse (in a way that doesn’t place blame on the individual).

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

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post #6

That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

Is more vacation time really radical? Don’t US workers have much less than other Western countries?

He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"
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