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🗓️ 10 December 2021
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A conversation about r/antiwork with @highriselowlife. Where did it come from? Why does it appeal to people? Is it the antidote to culture war? Will it organize a revolutionary general strike?
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Song: Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It
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| 0:00.0 | Take this job and shub it. |
| 0:03.0 | I ain't work in the hair on more. |
| 0:06.0 | A woman doesn't mess, |
| 0:09.0 | took on the reason I was working for. |
| 0:15.0 | You did not try standing my way. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, so you hit me up, I think we, |
| 0:21.0 | when did we make this engagement last night? |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah, but I saw you mentioned it on there |
| 0:26.6 | and I've been, I've been following, |
| 0:30.1 | like I don't, uh, I don't think I've had the same continuous Reddit account for more than two years because I usually just like |
| 0:37.3 | Put one on my phone to like curate what areas I want to follow and then I'll break my phone and not remember my log in so I just make a new account |
| 0:46.2 | But I kept going like I kept going back to anti-work and I had the I mean I would expect the reaction most people have the first time I stumble on it like that what a bunch of lazy dorks |
| 0:55.8 | You know they don't want a job |
| 0:58.8 | But like the more I read into it the more I engaged with that the more that I realize that what when people say that they're anti work what they're not saying is that they don't want to do shit like nobody's saying that they want to lie down and rot. What they're saying is that the current way that our labor is organized is just by its very nature, it sucks. It's shitty. Like, you you know nobody's working for the weekend they just hate |
| 1:25.8 | their fucking job they hate the the obligations that are placed on them they hate the |
| 1:30.6 | strain and uh like on them. They hate the strain. |
| 1:47.7 | And like, you know, as corny as it sounds, seeing a bunch of other people who had the same complaints as me, you know, was cathartic at the time, especially like, you know, working, I think, any industry now, thank you, dear. |
| 1:49.9 | You get, you know, I just, I've found it as a really good antidote to that hustle culture |
| 1:57.5 | bullshit at the time. |
| 1:59.5 | You know, like people, you know, post it on social media like, oh, rise and grind, you know like people you know post and on social media like oh rise and grind you know you got |
| 2:05.1 | everybody's got the same 24 hours and it's like well fucking do we when do you think you first saw it |
| 2:12.2 | probably about like 2016, 2017 because I was, uh, |
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