Posted on 01/18/2022 6:35:36 AM PST by NOBO2012
Here’s a little story that clearly demonstrates the effect that 40+ years of Commie/anti-American propaganda taught in public schools has had: ‘Anti-work’ threads on Reddit are fueling the Great Resignation.
On Reddit, the “antiwork” subreddit is now one of the social network’s most active and engaged pages, after seeing explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. It currently has more than 1.6 million users, up from 180,000 in October 2020. People post epic text and e-mail screenshots of quitting their jobs, but the real heroes are so-called “idlers” — those who stay in jobs doing the absolute minimum to get by while still collecting a paycheck.
You can replace “antiwork” with anti-capitalism as that is what this is really about. It’s a continuation of the Occupy Wall Street movement,
Antifa,
and other “anarchy’ groups and movements that have emerged since Obama’s fundamental transformation of America.
This is Doreen Ford, she’s the moderator of the “Antiwork” subreddit:
I could be wrong but it looks like Doreen could use a shave.
Doreen says that the movement is intended as a major snub of capitalism:
She noted that the general idea behind the anti-work movement “is to reduce the coercive element of labor as much as possible by subverting capitalism,” and said that those active on the page are mainly far leftists who support Bernie Sanders and AOC, and, often also identify as socialists, communists and/or anarchists.
What a surprise: all of society’s lay-abouts, working hard to avoid work.
It’s clear that the new Commies/Socialists/Anarchists “antiwork” cohort contribute to America’s declining labor participation rate. They don’t feel they should have to work in order to live – that’s such a 20th century concept.
After trending up for more than three decades, the labor force participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000. Over the next few years, the rate receded to about 66 percent and stayed at that level through 2008. The participation rate then dropped again, and by mid-2016, it stood at 62.7 percent.
And it currently rests around 61.8%. Which, along with the subreddits who are trying to do as little as possible and still draw a paycheck from either a private sector employer or the government, pretty much explains the ongoing “COVID” labor shortage plaguing America. It’s an anti-capitalist movement. Brought to you courtesy of Public Schools and the US government.
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And whose fault is that, honey?
I’m old enough to have been to the actually USSR pre collapse. This was a common political and practical every day mantra. Yes workers went to work the productivity was virtually zero.
Мы делаем вид, что работаем, а они делают вид, что платят
That translates to ruffly,
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay
That is the truth.
Post WWII US was a bubble. All major competitors were blown up or dead. There was huge amount of pent up demand, and a smaller work force than normal.
If you go through pre WWII history, most people were what we call poor. They will be again.
Boomers grew up and spent their formative years in a boom cycle. That cycle ended, and we are going back to the norm if we are lucky.
The safe, trusting, clean, and well behaved world is dead. The future will be poor, dirty, dangerous, and corrupt.
You get it. Our “must work more and take no time for normal life” credo is deeply flawed. Laugh all you will at the Europeans, they at least understand there is more to life than the work/debt cycle.
Over there, if you don’t take your vacation you are considered foolish. Here you are “rewarded” with more work. You are expected to be loyal to your employer, but that same employer is under no obligation to show you the same consideration.
Parts of our system are unjustifiably unreasonable, and desperately need reappraisal.
They are about 30 years stale... This is what the punk movement was about. The punk rockers eventually cleaned up on capitalism.
Also, companies won't draw the line at the customer by raising prices or saying no, fearing they'll go elsewhere.
They won't draw the line at the stockholders, fearing the stock will drop and the company will suffer.
So they draw the line at the employees. Depending on where they draw the line, the employees pull back, stop putting in extra effort or walk out the door. Since you're far outnumbered by the slackers, your departure doesn't affect the report of total headcount to identify the problem to top management. The talent is already out the door by the time the other reports reflect the collapsing house of cards.
Absolutely.
In the gulags they literally worked people to death.
Try being “open right” in most corps! lol Diversity? Equity? Inclusion? I know they’re scary words the left uses, but they apply to us as well (and one of the reasons I left corps for good). That’s still not money, which a lot of people seem to think driving this. To me, it looks like the reasons they’re giving all boil down to management issues and, likely, high expectations.
Ah, public schools. Is there anything that can’t do?
I can’t stand that soy face.. lol. It captures them rather accurately.
idlers are nothing new... I’ve known many, most have worked for the fed govt
You actually mean.
Главное Управление Исправительно— Трудовых Лагерей
Or
The Chief Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps
These were for political prisoners and maximum security prisoners they had absolutely zero to do with the average person unless you happened to also be a thorn in the party’s side. If you didn’t notice already I speak Russian , have lived in Russia and spent time in the USSR so I think I know a tinsy little bit about the system before 1991’
будь здоров, товарищ
My nephew’s son is a case in point. He has a chemistry degree from SUNY Alfred. He works as a truck driver for a HVAC contractor in Buffalo. He was offered another job, developing some computer system for the company that could have, in everyone’s opinion, led to bigger and better things, but he turned it down. He likes being a truck driver and delivering HVAC parts to job sites. He recently moved in with another guy who quit a great cybersecurity job in California. Too much pressure, and he was always afraid of making a mistake. The first kid has a brother finishing up at SUNY Binghamton, who extremely focused, and a whiz at math and physics. He wants to work in operations management or IE at Amazon.
Its kinda interesting, when someone from a very conservative site is saying what you are saying and not getting burned, I guess times have changed.
I don’t think we are really disagreeing for the most part. I do not speak Russian, but I have read The Gulag Archipelago, which is generally acknowledged to be true. I know things were somewhat different in later years.
Conservative, not pro wage-slavery.
I said our work-life balance needs to be adjusted. To consider that anything other than an observation of fact speaks volumes.
One family of 4-6 used to live comfortably on one worker’s income from a 35-42 hour week.
We now have families of 3-4 with both parents working 45-80 hour weeks and JUST getting by.
Something is wrong with that.
I agree, sorry I didnt put that in my last post I made, I dont disagree with you. But yeah that does not sound right, I’m not saying we have to be like Western Europe, but something has got to give, and change.
Those undervalued workers with skill do have another option…Start their own business. “Find a need and fill it!” Same as it ever was.
He does, and I think its time re-examine work in the US, and glad to see some reasonable opinions on this thread.
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