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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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Post by birtoise »

tjs8rj wrote: 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…

You know some boomer typed the comment when you read “Marxist talking points”. Jeez, people really have no idea what Marx’s propositions were, right?

Also: how is “more vacation time” a bad thing? US working culture is so toxic people think workers don’t deserve more leisure time. No wonder people start looking for alternatives to capitalism

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

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Post by birtoise »

koheripbal wrote: post #15
BoboDupla wrote: post #3

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.

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

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Post by phoronixrly »

_8j50 wrote: post #17
phoronixrly wrote: post #2

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...

You are not exactly the first person to say this on this thread. How do I know you yourself are not part of a discredition campaign? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic popular posts or accounts at least?

Lol yeah, I've been hired by low level US businesses to discredit antiwork on... HN of all places :)

Sorry, just excercising a safe amount of scepticism with regards to social media.

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

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Post by scollet »

martythemaniak wrote: post #30
truculent wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

That's extreme hyperbole.

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

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Post by tablespoon »

koheripbal wrote: post #14

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> Frankly, I would not be surprised if millions of Russian bot accounts are behind this sub.

Probably not. I'm not familiar with this subbreddit, but based on the headline, there is a similar movement in China (that IIRC is now being suppressed by the authorities): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-slackers.... I highly doubt Russian bots have any influence in China at all.

My bet it all this is just people coming to the realization that the capitalist rat race is actually a stupid game for most workers to play.

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

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Post by hotpotamus »

version_five wrote: post #26
_8j50 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 e…

> it seems to work on it's own

I think some FB employees might have an issue with that.

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

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Post by abduhl »

_8j50 wrote: post #17
phoronixrly wrote: post #2

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...

You are not exactly the first person to say this on this thread. How do I know you yourself are not part of a discredition campaign? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic popular posts or accounts at least?

You're not the first person to question people questioning whether the antiwork echo chamber is being manipulated by state actors. How do I know you aren't part of the counter counter espionage? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic posts or accounts?

What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory is to go directly into a deeper conspiracy theory then it's pretty likely you've already made up your mind about the underlying topic and aren't approaching the discussion in good faith anymore.

Edit: this is especially true after watching 4 years of the federal government waging an internal war between two factions about how much "influence" a foreign power had over our social media and elections.

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

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Post by hotpotamus »

1shooner wrote: post #20
diob wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't really blame them, I think after a while folks realized they all had the same experiences. Long hours, promised promotions, and eventually they have all cracked a bit. The generation after millenials has seen how the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health (some of us got out lucky, like myself), with 0 reward besides deference to some boomers. So I think we're going to see quite a revolution in o…

> the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health Is this referring to a specific trend or statistic?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20210325/gen-x-mill...

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

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Post by effingwewt »

scotty79 wrote: post #18
acheron wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All personal stories on Reddit should be assumed to be lies. I can’t believe there are people out there taking anything on it seriously.

Wow, so many literary creative individuals doing unpaid work for fun is way more plausible explanation than random people being just fed up with their lives and wanting to vent.

You would be surprised. I've seen several stories get called out and the authors then say, invariably- 'Oh yea forgot to mention I'm a writer, maybe that's why blah blah'.

I don't know if they try and add these things to their portfolio, but it definitely makes a perverse sense, ie 'look my writing even fooled X people on reddit!'

Honestly I believe nothing anymore without some digging, and really it's something that's gotten worse as every year I feel like we are living in a world of lies- politics, ads, fucking everything.

Now, I do honestly believe there are many people that are legitimately unhappy and venting in that sub- I know more than a few people in real life living out some of those stories.

Just...use critical thinking skills. And try not to let it kill you inside. I am become jaded and cynical, but because I'm a realist.

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