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A community for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

The new place for c/antiwork@lemmy.fmhy.ml

This server is no longer working, and we had to move.

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Date Created: June 21, 2023

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Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.

c/Antiwork Rules

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1. Server Main Rules

The main rules of the server will be enforced stringently. https://lemmy.world/

2. No spam or reposts + limit off topic comments

Spamming posts will be removed. Reposts will be removed with the exception of a repost becoming the main hub for discussion on that topic.

Off topic comments that do not pertain to the post at hand may be removed if it is deemed they contribute nothing and/or foster hostility at users. This mostly applies to political and religious debate, but can be applied to other things at the mod’s discretion.

3. Post must have Antiwork/ Work Reform explicitly involved

Post must have Antiwork/Work Reform explicitly involved in some capacity. This can be talking about antiwork, work reform, laws, and ext.

4. Educate don’t attack

No mocking, demeaning, flamebaiting, purposeful antagonizing, trolling, hateful language, false accusation or allegation, or backseat moderating is allowed. Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks against another user or insult other people, examples of violations would be going after the person rather than the stance they take.

If we feel the comment is uncalled for we will remove it. Stay civil and there won’t be problems.

5. No Advertising

Under no circumstance are you allowed to promote or advertise any product or service

6. No factually misleading informationContent that makes claims or implications that can be proven false or misleading will be removed.

7. Headlines

If the title of the post isn’t an original title of the article then the first thing in the body of the post should be an original title written in this format “Original title: {title here}”.

8. Staff Discretion

Staff can take disciplinary action on offenses not listed in the rules when a community member's actions or general conduct creates a negative experience for another player and/or the community.

It is impossible to list every example or variation of the rules. It is also impossible to word everything perfectly. Players are expected to understand the intent of the rules and not attempt to "toe the line" or use loopholes to get around the intent of the rule.


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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nobody's "selfmade". That's a myth perpetuated by Forbes, WSJ and the like to decrease resentment towards the people whose boots they lick for a living.

In reality, no matter how hard you work, you need the help of others to be successful and to be downright RICH, you need a whole lot of luck too.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's less about working harder, and more about seeing opportunities and being able to take the risk to go after them.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. If someone with a net worth of $100m or more takes a gamble and loses, the company goes under and people lose their jobs while the rich guy gets a loan or a tax write-off.

"Seeing opportunities" for huge possible gains for yourself with all significant risks being to people much less fortunate than you and taking it isn't a virtue, it's self-centered greed.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the key to my statement is "being able to take the risk". poor folks can't take the same risks that the wealthy folks can take.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

And what my statement was meant to convey is the fact that the ventures you so laud are all reward and no risk for the rich and all risk and no reward for the poor.

If it had been a game of crabs, the rich would be rolling 4 loaded dice, picking which two count after throwing. The poor would have one dice at most, the most beneficial numbers missing at all times.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's like 8 billion people, statistically there will be a few honest to god self made millionaires.

They're just so rare that it's not worth considering as a real possibility for the average person.

I wouldn't call it impossible, just statistically insignificant.

Edit: self made billionaires. Stupid inflation.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

statistically there will be a few honest to god self made nillionaires

That's not how statistics work. There being a lot of people doesn't change reality to make the impossible possible.

You literally CAN'T become a billionaire without a SHITLOAD of help from and exploitation of others and that's the case whether the world population is 30 or 30 trillion.

I wouldn't call it impossible, just statistically insignificant.

Again, not how ANYTHING works.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine being this confident and so, so wrong

About something so minor too

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As is made abundantly clear in my reply to your other comment, it is you that is confidently wrong and it's an important issue.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't just say that's not how something works and have it be true wtf kind of ridiculous world do you live in

That literally is how statistics work.

It is impossible for gravity to not function.

It is not impossible for a self made billionaire to exist.

Monkeys, typewriters, Shakespeare

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's how it works: people work in exchange for much less than the value they produce.

That surplus value is turned into profit for the company, exorbitant salaries for executives and stock market value. Those are the sources of income that makes a billionaire.

No matter how and where a billionaire started, that is how they became a billionaire: value produced by other people becoming wealth for one person. And a shitload of hoarding, of course.

Statistics document reality, they don't change how it works.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooof. God I hope you're not old enough to vote cause you have no idea how anything works. You're parroting things you've read but applying them to a whole different concept, with the fervor of ignorance.

Did someone quote a few lines about surplus value at you, and now you think you have the whole world figured out?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God I hope you're not old enough to vote cause you have no idea how anything works

Says the worst case of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome I've come across all month 🙄

I'm bored of your pompous mouse roars and will let you be a willfully ignorant tool (in both senses of the word) without wasting any more time and energy on you. Have the day you deserve.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Have the day you deserve.

Oooh another phrase you just saw and repeated. Have you ever had an original thought?

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't understand what selfmade means. It means they did not inherited a fortune500 company at the age of 25. Selfmade means they started from a situation where they had a degree and a simple common job and made into a billionaire. Obvioisly no single person can create and manage a 20000 person company on its own, no one ever said it is like that.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I understand just fine. What I'm saying is that using that word implies that they have earned all their wealth and are more deserving than others who didn't have the same help and luck. More deserving than others with the same background who have worked just as hard with less help and/or luck along the way.

Whether or not that's the intention, that's the implication and thus why using the word at all skews the conversation.