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Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by [deleted] »

joecot wrote: post #13
Datenstrom wrote: post #8

The personal attacks and especially acting like dog walking is some lowly profession is just disgusting. Anyone doing anything "ambitious" is only being held up by the support of many others making just as meaningful contributions. A dog walker provides a great service to a community that impacts many peoples lives by keeping their companions, which provide emotional support and boost their productivity, healthy and…

It's not so much that the problem is being a dog walker, it's that she's a dog walker who only works 20-25 hours a week and believes people should work even less . And that her response to Fox News's question about whether they were being lazy was "Laziness is a virtue". This mod made previous posts about how she literally sleeps on the job[1], so this isn't about a noble career choice, it's just about laziness. She…

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Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by NoPicklez »

The part that Fox hit the nail on the head was asking them what they really wanted to do in life. They responded saying to teach Philosophy, now all jokes aside, what's stopping this person from going after that? This movement that this person supports isn't going to get them to where they want to be in life, or atleast have a go.

Like all things people have their own interpretation of what "anti-work" is.

For me it's centered around making sure that people aren't working crazy hours at the expense of enjoying the life we live. I'm thinking the Amazon workers who seem to be getting treated terribly. Or its people that work extremely long hours and get paid a very average wage. Or its people burnt out from having worked very hard in their careers. It's the burnout work culture.

Unfortunately in this case, the viewpoint that was taken by the media and certainly communicated by the mod was around simply doing the least amount of work possible. For some people this is okay, but I wouldn't be encouraging it to live a fulfilled life.

If this person had said, I work x number of hours a week dog walking so I can follow my passion of x, then that's completely fine.

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by anonygler »

alexb_ wrote: post #30
anonygler wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a zoom call. Autistic people are capable of basic discipline. They’re clearly not medically disabled.

Look, I'm not trying to defend her. But do you think that autism goes away when it's a zoom call or something? I think that it's a perfectly fine explanation for no eye contact/rocking, as both are common symptoms of autism. Think it's a bit rash to immediately assume they are "clearly not medically disabled".

In the past people would hold themselves to a high standard and celebrate triumph over adversity.

Today people are fetishizing this “neurodivergent” psychosis and it’s downright weird. This person could absolutely sit still if they every bothered to have priorities in their life.

I refuse to respect this weird trend.

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by cuteboy19 »

udbhavs wrote: post #33
zozbot234 wrote: post #24

New subreddit r/LyingFlat starting in 3, 2, 1...

r/WorkReform is supposedly the replacement for the faction that wasn't "anti-work" but pro-better work conditions that felt misrepresented in the interview.

Factionalism is endemic to left wing movements. There are already 3 different splinter subs for workreform

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by [deleted] »

anonygler wrote: post #34
alexb_ wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, I'm not trying to defend her. But do you think that autism goes away when it's a zoom call or something? I think that it's a perfectly fine explanation for no eye contact/rocking, as both are common symptoms of autism. Think it's a bit rash to immediately assume they are "clearly not medically disabled".

In the past people would hold themselves to a high standard and celebrate triumph over adversity. Today people are fetishizing this “neurodivergent” psychosis and it’s downright weird. This person could absolutely sit still if they every bothered to have priorities in their life. I refuse to respect this weird trend.

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Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by Gigachad »

anonygler wrote: post #34
alexb_ wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, I'm not trying to defend her. But do you think that autism goes away when it's a zoom call or something? I think that it's a perfectly fine explanation for no eye contact/rocking, as both are common symptoms of autism. Think it's a bit rash to immediately assume they are "clearly not medically disabled".

In the past people would hold themselves to a high standard and celebrate triumph over adversity. Today people are fetishizing this “neurodivergent” psychosis and it’s downright weird. This person could absolutely sit still if they every bothered to have priorities in their life. I refuse to respect this weird trend.

Could they have sat still? Probably. Were they self aware enough to even realise what they are doing is embarrassing? Almost certainly not.

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by rdtsc »

udbhavs wrote: post #33
zozbot234 wrote: post #24

New subreddit r/LyingFlat starting in 3, 2, 1...

r/WorkReform is supposedly the replacement for the faction that wasn't "anti-work" but pro-better work conditions that felt misrepresented in the interview.

In general, I find it is much harder to maintain group focus and cohesion when the movement is defined as anti- something right off the bat. It works for short term causes, but not easy sustain long term.

It starts with negativity, it then attracts more as it goes along. The angriest, most radical ones are promoted to become leaders. Soon the negativity spills into internal fights - “ you are not angry enough, not one of us, we’re banning you!” etc.

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by soared »

alexb_ wrote: post #26

The entire thing was a disaster, start to finish. If you're going on Fox News, at least clean your room, put on something other than a sweatshirt, and come PREPARED. You have to know that Fox is going to ask you horribly loaded questions that aim to make you seem like the biggest fool on earth. But the funny part is, they didn't even do that. The questions asked pretty much amounted to "What are your aspirations?" an…

[2] doesn’t seem to support your claim?

Re: Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview

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Post by chris11 »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #6
xenadu02 wrote: post #3

Never talk to the media. That goes double for right-wing media. They aren't your friends, all they care about is pushing their narrative. They will steam-roll you and ruin your life for ratings / views.

The host was quite respectful and only asked reasonable questions.

Watters is not a reasonable journalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Watters#Controversies.
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