SIO319: The Rise (and Fall?) of r/antiwork
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What the saga around the subreddit r/antiwork says about our society and capitalism's death grip on us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 319 I'm Thomas and by myself |
| 0:18.6 | if you listen to that Patreon thingy that Lindsay and I did this might be the last thing |
| 0:23.7 | you'd expect I kind of talked about how you know I love I have all the energy in the world |
| 0:28.6 | for Lindsay episodes but I just kind of lost the drive to do these solo ones but I don't |
| 0:34.0 | know some combination of Lindsay's reaction to that and also just a better mental health |
| 0:40.2 | day perhaps and add into the mix I just have something that I've been tossed around the |
| 0:45.0 | old noggin that I want to talk about some combination of those factors has me back behind |
| 0:50.9 | the mic here for a solo episode hope you enjoyed hope you get something out of it so this |
| 0:56.8 | is about the reddit the subreddit as it's called our slash anti work teaser version of it |
| 1:02.6 | real quick before I go into the the sort of mini dive on it the teaser version would be how did |
| 1:09.6 | a subreddit that has gained massive following recently you know in the millions of followers |
| 1:16.7 | people posting every day in the wake of covid and and the great quitting trend that has gone |
| 1:25.4 | on people quitting their jobs to find better paying ones or to just not work amidst all that this |
| 1:31.0 | popular uprising kind of the sort of populist kind of thing how does it go from that to one of |
| 1:37.4 | the people who was who started the subreddit and is now a moderator goes on Fox News does a interview |
| 1:43.4 | and then people hated so much that that entire subreddit currently is private I don't know that |
| 1:51.0 | that means it'll be private forever anything it might just be they're going to do that until |
| 1:55.8 | they figure out what to do it's a reminder that when we have one of these massive thingies like a |
| 2:00.7 | like a subreddit or a Facebook page or a Twitter whatever it might be it starts to feel like a mass |
| 2:06.4 | movement and then you realize yeah but you still got some humans are like in charge of the whole |
| 2:11.8 | thing and there's a lot to talk about there so that's the teaser version it's now private I don't |
| 2:17.1 | know if I don't I doubt the subreddit is like gone or anything I imagine they'll keep it going |
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