Antiwork/Work Reform
A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
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Subscribers: 2.9k
Date Created: June 15, 2023
Date Updated: July 17, 2023
Library copied from reddit:
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Essential Reads
Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2013) | listen
- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
c/Antiwork Rules
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1. Server Main Rules
The main rules of the server will be enforced stringently. https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/
2. No spam or reposts + limit off topic comments
Spamming posts will be removed. Reposts will be removed with the exception of a repost becoming the main hub for discussion on that topic.
Off topic comments that do not pertain to the post at hand may be removed if it is deemed they contribute nothing and/or foster hostility at users. This mostly applies to political and religious debate, but can be applied to other things at the mod’s discretion.
3. Post must have Antiwork/ Work Reform explicitly involved
Post must have Antiwork/Work Reform explicitly involved in some capacity. This can be talking about antiwork, work reform, laws, and ext.
4. Educate don’t attack
No mocking, demeaning, flamebaiting, purposeful antagonizing, trolling, hateful language, false accusation or allegation, or backseat moderating is allowed. Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks against another user or insult other people, examples of violations would be going after the person rather than the stance they take.
If we feel the comment is uncalled for we will remove it. Stay civil and there won’t be problems.
5. No Advertising
Under no circumstance are you allowed to promote or advertise any product or service
6. No factually misleading information
Content that makes claims or implications that can be proven false or misleading will be removed.
7. Headlines
If the title of the post isn’t an original title of the article then the first thing in the body of the post should be an original title written in this format “Original title: {title here}”.
8. Staff Discretion
Staff can take disciplinary action on offenses not listed in the rules when a community member's actions or general conduct creates a negative experience for another player and/or the community.
It is impossible to list every example or variation of the rules. It is also impossible to word everything perfectly. Players are expected to understand the intent of the rules and not attempt to "toe the line" or use loopholes to get around the intent of the rule.
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The antiwork sub devolved into a negative circlejerk, I hope workreform takes a foothold instead. It’s not realistic to be anti work, it takes work to survive and thrive. It’s a matter of having thoughtful discussions on a realistic way to attain a proper balance. This comes from someone who subbed to antiwork right away and transitioned to the workreform sub. Either way, good luck and fight the good fight!
Any things that you want to see and don't want to see on this sub? And please explain me more about wdym by "negative circlejerk".
I'm not who you asked, but I can explain it.
I was banned from the sub because I pointed out that a local politician is divisive and largely disliked by the leftist community here (it's about 50/50 whether leftists here like her or absolutely hate her). Coincidentally, she happens to be a registered socialist. Because she is a socialist, and I spoke negatively of her, I was banned. I was able to back up how disliked she is with articles and whatnot, but she's a socialist, so you can't say anything bad about her.
If this community is going to be the same, I want no part in it.
I don’t know about all that, I just don’t think it’s smart to put effort into a new place to discuss work reform and make the same mistake and call it antiwork again.
I named it both to hit more keywords when people search for subs, now I can't back out from that because the permament name is called antiwork. :x
Have you seen this one?
@workreform
Yes, I found it after after I made this one. I decided to post there (my sub) to make sure I didn't block people from having conversations on the sub you linked and I was kinda curious if I will be able to somehow come out at the top because both of the communities were very new. xd
I agree. I preferred the workreform sub. Seemed more mature.
I don't want to see bootlickers intentionally misconstruing what "anti-work" means like is happening in this thread.
Content on r/antiwork turned into just hating on companies for anything at all. Sometimes there are negative things an employer has to do which is understandable if you look into why they did what they did.
If people want to just hate on anything that revolves around working I guess a community called antiwork is the place to be. If I remember right the antiwork sub started as more of a work reform sub, got popular and shifted to just shitting on employers and had that dumb mod go on Fox and make everyone on antiwork look like fools. That’s when I switched to the workreform sub.
It’s ok for both antiwork and workreform to exist, I just hope a community called antiwork doesnt try to become the main workreform community again since there’s an opportunity for a fresh start.