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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.
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…
That subreddit has had links to extensive anarchist/communist reading lists in its sidebar since it was founded. Perhaps it went through a lighthearted period, but its roots are radical and the links, related subs, and moderator list from its earlier days make that abundantly clear. https://web.archive.org/web/20190430233904/https://old.reddi...
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The point is that the other communities that Reddit banned weren't inciting violence either. This one is way worse than they were, yet it's not banned and they are.
The solution to authoritarianism isn't more authoritarianism. If Reddit overstepped in the past, we shouldn't treat that as a watermark for what should be banned in future.
They won't ban antiwork because it encourages giving up, consooming, laziness, weakness. Exactly the kind of NPC audience reddit milks money off of. Ad revenue, reddit gold, buying emojis, constant scrooolllling, etc.
You are just naive, there will always be authoritarianism, forever. You're just on the receiving end or the administrating end.
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Please don't post this sort of evidence-free insinuation to HN. They're against the site guidelines, and have been for years, because they almost never amount to anything, but do have a poisonous effect on the ecosystem as users rile each other up about them. " Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're…
Not everyone knows that most posts on Reddit are fiction; it's good to point this out on stories about reddit.
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).
Naturally they'd align with a competitor system, most likely the most prominent one
Tbh, though, from my brief reading of the subreddit in question, I don't think it is particularly politically charged or cohesive. Sounds more like a lot of people with aligned complaints gathering to, well, complain
Curious to see whether this will extrapolate from the US to other places, too
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Trying to control what ideas are allowed to be discussed seems shockingly authoritarian. It's not like this community is inciting violence.
You're posting on a website that routinely removes posts and comments. It's definitely authoritarian, but forum sites are not democracies. There is an argument that a subreddit could be out of line with the site, and not hosted. Granted it would be a bit of a stretch given the kind of content on reddit. I don't think r/antiwork crosses any line, but it's really up to reddit
The problematic behaviour is advocating for a ban on the discussing these ideas.
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That subreddit has had links to extensive anarchist/communist reading lists in its sidebar since it was founded. Perhaps it went through a lighthearted period, but its roots are radical and the links, related subs, and moderator list from its earlier days make that abundantly clear. https://web.archive.org/web/20190430233904/https://old.reddi...
I'm sure there are many on that subreddit who are far from anarchist or communist, and just find that the message resonates: that working life in the US has become a monster.
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Though I'm not one to generally say this or that subreddit should be banned, reddit has destroyed many a thousand times less subversive ones than this in the past, like /r/whitebeautyart. So I don't see why this kind of nihilistic, apathetic, passive attitude should be encouraged. Yes, something like this actually deserves to be removed, especially when it reaches critical mass. Because it does more harm than good to…
Trying to control what ideas are allowed to be discussed seems shockingly authoritarian. It's not like this community is inciting violence.
… so all in a days work for reddit?
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The solution to authoritarianism isn't more authoritarianism. If Reddit overstepped in the past, we shouldn't treat that as a watermark for what should be banned in future.
It's not an overstepping at all, reddit has and always will be authoritarian. They will always be political. They banned whitebeautyart because it invoked a feeling of honor, tradition. They won't ban antiwork because it encourages giving up, consooming, laziness, weakness. Exactly the kind of NPC audience reddit milks money off of. Ad revenue, reddit gold, buying emojis, constant scrooolllling, etc. You are just nai…
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Though I'm not one to generally say this or that subreddit should be banned, reddit has destroyed many a thousand times less subversive ones than this in the past, like /r/whitebeautyart. So I don't see why this kind of nihilistic, apathetic, passive attitude should be encouraged. Yes, something like this actually deserves to be removed, especially when it reaches critical mass. Because it does more harm than good to…
As far as I can tell, /r/antiwork doesn't equate having a boss with slavery - they say having a shit job with a shit boss is a shitty situation they should not have to put up with. And, frankly, that seems reasonable. I have no idea about the other subreddit you mentioned, but it does sound superficially like a spot racists would meet up. But it's been banned so I'm just judging it by its title.
The sidebar literally advocates for abolition of work.