Antiwork

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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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"We opened micro-offices to bring remote workers back. Here’s how it’s become key" (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/antiwork

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Reinventing the wheel to end the "privilege" of work from home, and being proud of the bullshit they make up to justify it

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is an improvement. At most companies, you only get a private office at the organizational president level or above. Offices are so hideous and abusive because of "open office" floorplans; even cubicles have been mostly eliminated and replaced by workstations, offering no privacy or sound dampening. Offices are abusive environments.

But this? I'll happily accept a private dedicated office. And many workers do not want to work from home: they don't have room to have dedicated office space, or have trouble enforcing "this is work time" with their families. This addresses that.

It's also stupid in a couple of ways. First, it doesn't address the one benefit of company office space: the ability to meet face-to-face. Video conference is not the same. Second, it doesn't address the environmental impact of commuting, which I personally feel is what WFH advocates should be focusing on: collaborate with environmental activists and put pressure on large corporations on the environmental front. You can debate the relative merits is WFH; productivity decline, loss of value of in-person meetings; loss of value of hallway conversations; whatever. But what's unassailable is the fact that commuting is terrible for the environment, even in places where public transportation doesn't suck - and it sucks on most of the US.