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*Preview* Work Sucks (We Know) feat. Will Stronge

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, Riley and Milo sit down with Will Stronge, director of Autonomy and one of the principal authors of the four day work week report (linked here) that’s been generating so much interest lately. Sing it loud and sing it proud: work sucks! You can access the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/work-sucks-we-24815906 If you want to learn more about Autonomy, visit their site here: http://autonomy.work/ *COMEDY KLAXON* On 27th February at 8 pm, Elf Lyons and a number of other comics will perform at Smoke Comedy at the Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA). Tickets are £5, and you can get them here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smoke-comedy-with-elf-lyons-tickets-55825778406 Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously. Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I recently had an argument with sort of an employer, I guess, which I feel like encapsulates this, where like I was being

0:21.4

put up for some work by tutoring agency. And I happened to know the guy at the tutoring agency who's

0:26.3

like, yeah, this kid's kind of a shithead, like, but you know, they need someone to like do this.

0:30.3

And I'm like, fine. But then the person who was like managing this client didn't want to put me up

0:34.9

for it because they felt that like my heart wasn't in it. And I'm like,

0:37.8

whose heart is in teaching like the incredibly privileged shithead kid of like some oligarchs

0:44.1

so that they can get an advantage over like a poorer but smarter kid? Like how much of a rube would

0:48.9

you have to be to be like, no, I just believe in the good of education. Like you would have to be

0:52.6

so dumb that there would be nothing you could teach that child.

0:56.2

And in that way, you would be the perfect client because you would, the perfect tutor rather,

1:00.0

because you would just be stealing money from the family and making the kid dumber.

1:04.1

Accidentally doing radical praxis by being really stupid.

1:08.2

Redistributing wealth, baby.

1:09.8

Redistributing wealth by accident. But that's the

1:12.0

this is, I think, gets the core of what the right thinks about work, which is that they think that

1:16.7

there is, which is that if you're left to your own device, especially the working class is left

1:22.2

to its own devices, then it will sort of, without the discipline and structure of a boss who's educated and from the middle or upper classes, the working class will just drift.

1:31.2

It comes to the end of the level.

1:32.0

We'll just drift into vice and indolence and will sort of cry out from meaning and structure.

1:37.5

It's a way of looking at the working class as children, I think.

1:40.3

Yeah, it's like a total lack of faith or trust in other people. But I think also there's a fear.

1:46.1

There's a fear that if basically you give material kind of like sustainability and comfort and

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